Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That ...
... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That ...
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... attempt anything like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which ...
... attempt anything like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which ...
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... attempt to rewrite some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known , or more frequently ...
... attempt to rewrite some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known , or more frequently ...
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... attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We ...
... attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We ...
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... attempted a fruitless struggle against a defect inherent in the nature of that species of composition ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and ...
... attempted a fruitless struggle against a defect inherent in the nature of that species of composition ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and ...
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Página 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Página 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Página 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Página 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Página 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Página 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...