Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... circumstances attending its publication , will secure to it a a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will then , to ...
... circumstances attending its publication , will secure to it a a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will then , to ...
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... circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born ' an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe ...
... circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born ' an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe ...
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... circumstances under which Tragedy made its first appearance . Eschylus was , head and heart , a lyric poet . In his time , the Greeks had far more intercourse with the East than in the days of Ho- mer ; and they had not yet acquired ...
... circumstances under which Tragedy made its first appearance . Eschylus was , head and heart , a lyric poet . In his time , the Greeks had far more intercourse with the East than in the days of Ho- mer ; and they had not yet acquired ...
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... circumstances . It was from within . Neither love nor glory , neither the conflicts of the earth nor the hope of heaven , could dispel it . It twined every consolation and every pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious ...
... circumstances . It was from within . Neither love nor glory , neither the conflicts of the earth nor the hope of heaven , could dispel it . It twined every consolation and every pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious ...
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... circumstances compelled Charles to summon another Parliament : another chance was given them for liberty . Were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were they again ...
... circumstances compelled Charles to summon another Parliament : another chance was given them for liberty . Were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were they again ...
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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.