Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... employ- ing 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 . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired ...
... employ- ing 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 . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally admired ...
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... employed in this struggle against the 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 ...
... employed in this struggle against the 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 ...
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... employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary therefore for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understanding ...
... employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary therefore for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understanding ...
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... employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mount guard at their gates . Our royalist countrymen were not heartless , dang- ling courtiers , bowing at every step , and simpering at every word . They ...
... employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mount guard at their gates . Our royalist countrymen were not heartless , dang- ling courtiers , bowing at every step , and simpering at every word . They ...
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... employed against our James the Second , that he urged his pupil to violent and perfidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition , which Lord Bacon seems to countenance ...
... employed against our James the Second , that he urged his pupil to violent and perfidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition , which Lord Bacon seems to countenance ...
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