Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousD. Appleton & Company, 1873 - 744 páginas |
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... give us vague phrases instead of images , and ' personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human nature than their pre- decessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray ...
... give us vague phrases instead of images , and ' personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human nature than their pre- decessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray ...
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... give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel ...
... give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel ...
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... give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are voted . Put no sooner is the tyrant relieved , than he returns at once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon ...
... give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are voted . Put no sooner is the tyrant relieved , than he returns at once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon ...
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... gives orders for the murder of his lieutenant ; he ends by murdering himself . Yet he never loses the esteem and affection ... give an extraordinary interest to his character . Iago , on the contrary , is the object of universal loathing ...
... gives orders for the murder of his lieutenant ; he ends by murdering himself . Yet he never loses the esteem and affection ... give an extraordinary interest to his character . Iago , on the contrary , is the object of universal loathing ...
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... give pleasure even to readers who take no in- racter which so widely distinguishes them from terest in the subject . the vague theories of most political philoso phers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless ...
... give pleasure even to readers who take no in- racter which so widely distinguishes them from terest in the subject . the vague theories of most political philoso phers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless ...
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