Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 sivua |
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... his Ari- anism , and his notions on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor 10 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... his Ari- anism , and his notions on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor 10 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into ...
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... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination ; nor ...
... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination ; nor ...
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... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known , or more frequently repeated , than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other ...
... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known , or more frequently repeated , than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other ...
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... scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
... scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
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