Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination ; nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that of Milton The authority of Johnson is against us ...
... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination ; nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that of Milton The authority of Johnson is against us ...
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... never with complete success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally par- took of its character . The genius of the greatest of the ...
... never with complete success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally par- took of its character . The genius of the greatest of the ...
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... And drenches with Elysian dew ( List , mortals , if your ears be true ) Beds of hyacinths and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes , Wax ng well of his deep wound . " ance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks MILTON . 23.
... And drenches with Elysian dew ( List , mortals , if your ears be true ) Beds of hyacinths and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes , Wax ng well of his deep wound . " ance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks MILTON . 23.
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... never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
... never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
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... never with more than apparent and par- tial success . The men who demolished the images in ca- thedrals , have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be difficult to show , that in ...
... never with more than apparent and par- tial success . The men who demolished the images in ca- thedrals , have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be difficult to show , that in ...
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