Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That ...
... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That ...
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... attempt anything like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which ...
... attempt anything like a com- plete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which ...
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... attempt to rewrite some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known , or more frequently ...
... attempt to rewrite some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known , or more frequently ...
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... attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We ...
... attempted to carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We ...
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... attempted a fruitless struggle against a defect inherent in the nature of that species of composition ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and ...
... attempted a fruitless struggle against a defect inherent in the nature of that species of composition ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and ...
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Página 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 31 - 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 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Página 21 - 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 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
Página 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Página 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.