Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 1. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical diction compar- able to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against ...
... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical diction compar- able to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against ...
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... never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made the Greek drama as dramatic as was consistent with its original form . His portraits of men have a sort of similarity ; but it is the similarity not of a painting , but of ...
... never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made the Greek drama as dramatic as was consistent with its original form . His portraits of men have a sort of similarity ; but it is the similarity not of a painting , but of ...
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... never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
... never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
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... never more than in the course of the present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in ...
... never more than in the course of the present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in ...
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... never omit an opportunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting the Whigs of that period , have no sooner crossed St. George's Channel , than they begin to fill their bumpers to the glorious and immortal memory . They ...
... never omit an opportunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting the Whigs of that period , have no sooner crossed St. George's Channel , than they begin to fill their bumpers to the glorious and immortal memory . They ...
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