Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... persons we have lived with from our infancy . His descriptions of scenery are not luxuriant and glowing pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic ...
... persons we have lived with from our infancy . His descriptions of scenery are not luxuriant and glowing pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic ...
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... persons of educa- tion , are the great works of antiquity incorporated with thought , that they arise involuntarily with every exercise of the faculty of taste , and insensibly recur to the cultivated mind , with all that it admires ...
... persons of educa- tion , are the great works of antiquity incorporated with thought , that they arise involuntarily with every exercise of the faculty of taste , and insensibly recur to the cultivated mind , with all that it admires ...
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... persons which forms the grand character- istic , the unequalled supremacy of the poem . Only think of what they are . Achilles , vehement alike in anger and in grief wrathful , impetuous , overbearing- " the most terrible character ever ...
... persons which forms the grand character- istic , the unequalled supremacy of the poem . Only think of what they are . Achilles , vehement alike in anger and in grief wrathful , impetuous , overbearing- " the most terrible character ever ...
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... persons of cultiva- ted taste , that it is hopeless to attempt to advance any- thing new on the beauties of ancient authors ; that every- thing that can be said on the subject has already been exhausted ; and that it is in the more ...
... persons of cultiva- ted taste , that it is hopeless to attempt to advance any- thing new on the beauties of ancient authors ; that every- thing that can be said on the subject has already been exhausted ; and that it is in the more ...
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... persons of ordinary perseverance or education . His mind was essentially philo- sophical ; and it is the philosophy of modern history , accordingly , which he has exerted himself so strenuously to unfold . He views society at a distance ...
... persons of ordinary perseverance or education . His mind was essentially philo- sophical ; and it is the philosophy of modern history , accordingly , which he has exerted himself so strenuously to unfold . He views society at a distance ...
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