Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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Sivu 45
... admiration ; the animals and insects are the objects of his tender solicitude . When the Mantuan bard wrote , - " Sæpe exiguus mus Sub terram posuit domos atque horrea fecit , " * he was inspired with the same spirit that afterwards ani ...
... admiration ; the animals and insects are the objects of his tender solicitude . When the Mantuan bard wrote , - " Sæpe exiguus mus Sub terram posuit domos atque horrea fecit , " * he was inspired with the same spirit that afterwards ani ...
Sivu 50
... admiration ; but it never occurs to us that we have seen such characters , or that the imagination of the poet has conceived anything resembling the occurrences of real life . The whole is a fairy dream - charming , interesting ...
... admiration ; but it never occurs to us that we have seen such characters , or that the imagination of the poet has conceived anything resembling the occurrences of real life . The whole is a fairy dream - charming , interesting ...
Sivu 52
... admiration for either by the ostentation with which he brings them forward on all occasions . The well - known line , " Sum pius Æneas , famâ super æthere notus , " occurs too frequently to render it possible to take any interest in ...
... admiration for either by the ostentation with which he brings them forward on all occasions . The well - known line , " Sum pius Æneas , famâ super æthere notus , " occurs too frequently to render it possible to take any interest in ...
Sivu 56
... admiration on an unworthy object . Nor is it difficult to see in what the excellence of Virgil consists . We cannot read a page of him without perceiving what has fascinated the world , without concurring in the fascination . It is the ...
... admiration on an unworthy object . Nor is it difficult to see in what the excellence of Virgil consists . We cannot read a page of him without perceiving what has fascinated the world , without concurring in the fascination . It is the ...
Sivu 71
... admiration which must be delivered , and will ever discover a new mode of deliver- ance . How many subjects of critical comparison in this view , hitherto nearly untouched upon , has the literature of Europe , and even of this age ...
... admiration which must be delivered , and will ever discover a new mode of deliver- ance . How many subjects of critical comparison in this view , hitherto nearly untouched upon , has the literature of Europe , and even of this age ...
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