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... spirit to pe- dantic refinements . The nature of his subject com- pelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and ...
... spirit to pe- dantic refinements . The nature of his subject com- pelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and ...
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... medi- tation , 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.
... medi- tation , 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.
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... spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
... spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
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... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
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... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the por- tion of spirit with ...
... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the por- tion of spirit with ...
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