Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872 - 855 páginas |
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... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . But It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . But It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poetry almost necessarily declines . Therefore , though we fervently admire those great works of imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary ...
... poetry almost necessarily declines . Therefore , though we fervently admire those great works of imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary ...
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... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a cer tain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a cer tain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
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... poetry as the flower - pots of a hot - house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite ...
... poetry as the flower - pots of a hot - house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite ...
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... poetry . The expression in general 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 ...
... poetry . The expression in general 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 ...
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