Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853 |
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... opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and Cambridge ...
... opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and Cambridge ...
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... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
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... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by con- trasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as VOL . I. с the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of ...
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by con- trasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as VOL . I. с the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of ...
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... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had con- tented himself with ...
... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had con- tented himself with ...
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... opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth ...
... opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth ...
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Página 302 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 17 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 268 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
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Página 40 - ... Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 304 - We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.
Página 7 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.
Página 370 - ... and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank,...
Página 7 - fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Página 49 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.