Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... eminent French writers . Yet what benefit has literature derived from its labors ? What is its history but an unin- terrupted record of servile compliances - of paltry artifices -of deadly quarrels - of perfidious friendships ? Wheth ...
... eminent French writers . Yet what benefit has literature derived from its labors ? What is its history but an unin- terrupted record of servile compliances - of paltry artifices -of deadly quarrels - of perfidious friendships ? Wheth ...
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... eminence in arts and letters ; -when I observe so many flourishing states and islands compelled to own the dominion , and purchase the protection , of the City of the Violet Crown * ” CALLIDEMUS . I shall choke with rage . Oh , all ye ...
... eminence in arts and letters ; -when I observe so many flourishing states and islands compelled to own the dominion , and purchase the protection , of the City of the Violet Crown * ” CALLIDEMUS . I shall choke with rage . Oh , all ye ...
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... eminent writer has sometimes push- ed too far his idolatry of Dante . To borrow a sprightly illustration from Sir John Denham , he has not only imitated his garb , but borrowed his clothes . He often quotes his phrases ; and he has ...
... eminent writer has sometimes push- ed too far his idolatry of Dante . To borrow a sprightly illustration from Sir John Denham , he has not only imitated his garb , but borrowed his clothes . He often quotes his phrases ; and he has ...
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... eminent poets . The herd of blue - stocking ladies and sonneteering gentlemen seem to consider a strong sensibility to the " splendour of the grass , the glory of the flower , " as an ingredient ab- solutely indispensable in the ...
... eminent poets . The herd of blue - stocking ladies and sonneteering gentlemen seem to consider a strong sensibility to the " splendour of the grass , the glory of the flower , " as an ingredient ab- solutely indispensable in the ...
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... eminence . But it is time to close this feeble and rambling critique . I cannot refrain , however , from saying a few words upon the translations of the Divine Comedy . Boyd's is as tedious and languid as the original is rapid and ...
... eminence . But it is time to close this feeble and rambling critique . I cannot refrain , however , from saying a few words upon the translations of the Divine Comedy . Boyd's is as tedious and languid as the original is rapid and ...
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