Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not in- deed very easy or elegant ...
... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not in- deed very easy or elegant ...
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... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable 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 ...
... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable 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 ...
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... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Na- tions , like individuals , first perceive , and then ab- stract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an en- lightened society is ...
... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Na- tions , like individuals , first perceive , and then ab- stract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an en- lightened society is ...
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... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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