Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... spirit to pedantic refinements . The na- ture of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where ...
... spirit to pedantic refinements . The na- ture of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where ...
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... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
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... spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part , if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I most ...
... spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part , if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I most ...
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... spirits crying out for the second death ; who has read the dusky charac- ters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
... spirits crying out for the second death ; who has read the dusky charac- ters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon ; who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
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... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
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