Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousD. Appleton & Company, 1873 - 744 páginas |
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... mean , the art of employing words in such a manner as to pro- duce an illusion on the imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines ...
... mean , the art of employing words in such a manner as to pro- duce an illusion on the imagination : the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines ...
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... means nothing ; but , applied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no ...
... means nothing ; but , applied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no ...
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... means of evil . " No person can answer in the negative , un- less he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his royalists , and to the confessions of the king himself . If there be any historian of ...
... means of evil . " No person can answer in the negative , un- less he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his royalists , and to the confessions of the king himself . If there be any historian of ...
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... means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with human beings , but having nei- ther part nor lot in human infirmities ; insensi- ble to ...
... means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with human beings , but having nei- ther part nor lot in human infirmities ; insensi- ble to ...
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... means are - the surest , the speediest , and no means follows that a similar judgment the darkest . He cannot comprehend how a would be just in the case cf an Italian of the man should scruple to deceive him whom he middle ages . On the ...
... means are - the surest , the speediest , and no means follows that a similar judgment the darkest . He cannot comprehend how a would be just in the case cf an Italian of the man should scruple to deceive him whom he middle ages . On the ...
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