Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... 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 he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence ...
... 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 he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence ...
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... natural agents excite an interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that ... nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their charac- ters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim re ...
... natural agents excite an interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that ... nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their charac- ters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim re ...
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... nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be con- ceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
... nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be con- ceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
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... nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , " a land of darkness , as darkness itself ...
... nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , " a land of darkness , as darkness itself ...
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... nature , old , poor , sightless , and disgraced , he retired to his hovel to die ! Hence it was , that though he wrote the Paradise Lost at a time of life when images of beauty and tenderness are in general beginning to fade , even from ...
... nature , old , poor , sightless , and disgraced , he retired to his hovel to die ! Hence it was , that though he wrote the Paradise Lost at a time of life when images of beauty and tenderness are in general beginning to fade , even from ...
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