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Some of the heterodox opinions which he avows seem to have excited considerable amazement : particularly his Ari- anism , and his notions on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the ...
Some of the heterodox opinions which he avows seem to have excited considerable amazement : particularly his Ari- anism , and his notions on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the ...
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But they will scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without ...
But they will scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without ...
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The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity ...
The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity ...
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In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known , or more frequently repeated , than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names .
In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known , or more frequently repeated , than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names .
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Still more will- ingly would we enter into a detailed examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , which , strangely enough , is scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection ...
Still more will- ingly would we enter into a detailed examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , which , strangely enough , is scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection ...
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