Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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Sivu 62
... taken with a certain limitation . No man ever exceeded Homer in the delineations of suffering , so far as he wished to portray it ; but it was one branch only of that emotion that he cared to paint . It was the domestic pathetic that he ...
... taken with a certain limitation . No man ever exceeded Homer in the delineations of suffering , so far as he wished to portray it ; but it was one branch only of that emotion that he cared to paint . It was the domestic pathetic that he ...
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... taken up in a state of infancy in the studio of Pietro Perugino , to its very highest point when he died , at the age of thirty - seven . Seventeen years , in Raphael's hands , sufficed to bring an art as great and difficult as poetry ...
... taken up in a state of infancy in the studio of Pietro Perugino , to its very highest point when he died , at the age of thirty - seven . Seventeen years , in Raphael's hands , sufficed to bring an art as great and difficult as poetry ...
Sivu 86
... taken without examination . Like Robertson , he was never able to extricate himself entirely from the early prejudices of his country and educa- tion ; hardly any of the Geneva school of philosophers have been able to do so . Brought up ...
... taken without examination . Like Robertson , he was never able to extricate himself entirely from the early prejudices of his country and educa- tion ; hardly any of the Geneva school of philosophers have been able to do so . Brought up ...
Sivu 107
... taken root by com- mon consent in the minds of men ? Not ten . Romance numbers its readers by hundreds , poetry by fifties , where history can with difficulty master one . This amazing differ- ence is not owing to any deficiency of ...
... taken root by com- mon consent in the minds of men ? Not ten . Romance numbers its readers by hundreds , poetry by fifties , where history can with difficulty master one . This amazing differ- ence is not owing to any deficiency of ...
Sivu 108
... taken from the biographer or writer of historical romance , that second - rate genius can effect triumphs in that department , to which the very highest mind alone is equal in general historical composition . No one would think of ...
... taken from the biographer or writer of historical romance , that second - rate genius can effect triumphs in that department , to which the very highest mind alone is equal in general historical composition . No one would think of ...
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