Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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Pagina 7
... employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the ima- gination , 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 ...
... employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the ima- gination , 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 ...
Pagina 9
... 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 MILTON . 9.
... 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 MILTON . 9.
Pagina 23
... employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous 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 ...
... employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous 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 ...
Pagina 54
... employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mount guard at their gates . Our royalist countrymen were not heartless , dangling 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 , dangling courtiers , bowing at every step , and simpering at every word . They ...
Pagina 64
... employed against our James the Second and that he urged his pupil to violent and perfidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliver- ance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to ...
... employed against our James the Second and that he urged his pupil to violent and perfidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliver- ance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to ...
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