Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... mind , emancipated from the influence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But ...
... mind , emancipated from the influence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But ...
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... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . 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 ...
... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . 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 ...
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... mind , that it not only was not suffocated beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry ...
... mind , that it not only was not suffocated beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry ...
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... mind through conductors . The most unimaginative man must understand the Iliad . Homer gives him no choice , and requires from him no exertion , but takes the whole upon himself , and sets the images in so clear a light , that it is ...
... mind through conductors . The most unimaginative man must understand the Iliad . Homer gives him no choice , and requires from him no exertion , but takes the whole upon himself , and sets the images in so clear a light , that it is ...
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... all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature incon- sistent MILTON . 15.
... all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature incon- sistent MILTON . 15.
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