Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 15
... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countrymen to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countrymen to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
Pagina 18
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
Pagina 24
... opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or ...
... opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or ...
Pagina 34
... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make prose- lytes , he had contented himself with ...
... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make prose- lytes , he had contented himself with ...
Pagina 39
... opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth ...
... opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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