Essays: Political, Historical, and MiscellaneousW. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... elevated ; viewed at the distance of eight or ten leagues , it resembles a vast wall , extremely similar to the Jura , as seen from the Lake of Geneva , from its form and azure tint . You can perceive neither summits nor the smallest ...
... elevated ; viewed at the distance of eight or ten leagues , it resembles a vast wall , extremely similar to the Jura , as seen from the Lake of Geneva , from its form and azure tint . You can perceive neither summits nor the smallest ...
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... elevated motives , than prompted the Greek confederates to range themselves under the King of Men . It had impelled Richard Coeur - de - Lion and Godfrey of Bouillon from Europe . It had roused Saladin and Solyman the Magnificent in ...
... elevated motives , than prompted the Greek confederates to range themselves under the King of Men . It had impelled Richard Coeur - de - Lion and Godfrey of Bouillon from Europe . It had roused Saladin and Solyman the Magnificent in ...
Sivu 48
... elevated being , than either Achilles or Æneas . Knights - errant , who went about in quest of adventures , redressing wrongs , succouring dam- sels , combating giants , defying sorcerers , delivering captives -faithful amidst every ...
... elevated being , than either Achilles or Æneas . Knights - errant , who went about in quest of adventures , redressing wrongs , succouring dam- sels , combating giants , defying sorcerers , delivering captives -faithful amidst every ...
Sivu 66
... elevated in kind as the highest flights of the epic or tragic muse , and it has been brought to a perfection to be paralleled only by the greatest conceptions of Grecian statuary . If called upon to assign the arts which human genius ...
... elevated in kind as the highest flights of the epic or tragic muse , and it has been brought to a perfection to be paralleled only by the greatest conceptions of Grecian statuary . If called upon to assign the arts which human genius ...
Sivu 71
... elevated by a congenial spirit , what a noble art does criticism become ! What has it proved in the hands of Dryden and Pope , of Wilson and Macaulay ! It is in the contemplation of ancient greatness , and its com- parison with the ...
... elevated by a congenial spirit , what a noble art does criticism become ! What has it proved in the hands of Dryden and Pope , of Wilson and Macaulay ! It is in the contemplation of ancient greatness , and its com- parison with the ...
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