Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the in- fancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models them- selves ...
... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the in- fancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models them- selves ...
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... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
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... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
Pagina 10
... human duce for a single moment a deception form . Yet even these transferred to the on the imagination . Sun the worship which , in speculation , Of all the poets who have introduced they considered due only to the Su- into their works ...
... human duce for a single moment a deception form . Yet even these transferred to the on the imagination . Sun the worship which , in speculation , Of all the poets who have introduced they considered due only to the Su- into their works ...
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... human form , walking among understandings as might break the men , partaking of their infirmities , lean- charm which it was his object to throw ing on their bosoms , weeping over their over their imaginations . This is the graves ...
... human form , walking among understandings as might break the men , partaking of their infirmities , lean- charm which it was his object to throw ing on their bosoms , weeping over their over their imaginations . This is the graves ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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