Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ...
... literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ...
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... literature of Greece should be tinc- tured with the oriental style . And that style , we think , is clearly discernible in the works of Pindar and Eschylus . The latter often reminds us of the Hebrew writers . The book of Job , indeed ...
... literature of Greece should be tinc- tured with the oriental style . And that style , we think , is clearly discernible in the works of Pindar and Eschylus . The latter often reminds us of the Hebrew writers . The book of Job , indeed ...
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... literature of modern Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which he enter- tained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , con- secrated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of ...
... literature of modern Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which he enter- tained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , con- secrated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of ...
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... literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture - writing of Mexico . The images which Dante employs speak for themselves : they stand simply for what they are ...
... literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture - writing of Mexico . The images which Dante employs speak for themselves : they stand simply for what they are ...
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... literature was even with them , as , in the long run , it always is with its enemies . The best book , on their side of the question , is the charming memoir of Mrs. Hutch- inson . May's History of the Parliament is good ; but it breaks ...
... literature was even with them , as , in the long run , it always is with its enemies . The best book , on their side of the question , is the charming memoir of Mrs. Hutch- inson . May's History of the Parliament is good ; but it breaks ...
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