Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... writers . Each in his own department is incomparable ; and each , we may remark , has wisely , or fortunately , taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative ...
... writers . Each in his own department is incomparable ; and each , we may remark , has wisely , or fortunately , taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative ...
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... writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously through a long succession of associated ideas , and of intima- ting more than he expressed , enabled ...
... writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously through a long succession of associated ideas , and of intima- ting more than he expressed , enabled ...
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... writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are not wicked men . They are not ugly beasts . They have no horns , no tails , none of the fee - faw - fum of Tasso and ...
... writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are not wicked men . They are not ugly beasts . They have no horns , no tails , none of the fee - faw - fum of Tasso and ...
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... writers whose works have been more completely , though unde- signedly , coloured by their personal feelings . The character of Milton was peculiarly distinguished by loftiness of spirit ; that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In every ...
... writers whose works have been more completely , though unde- signedly , coloured by their personal feelings . The character of Milton was peculiarly distinguished by loftiness of spirit ; that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In every ...
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... writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loath- some herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony ...
... writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loath- some herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony ...
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