Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... language respect- ing the historian of British India . It ought to be known that Mr. Mill had the generosity , not only to forgive , but to forget the unbecoming acrimony with which he had been assailed , and was , when his valuable ...
... language respect- ing the historian of British India . It ought to be known that Mr. Mill had the generosity , not only to forgive , but to forget the unbecoming acrimony with which he had been assailed , and was , when his valuable ...
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... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish however to avail ourselves silenced . There are many critics , and some of great name , who contrive in the same breath to extol the poems ...
... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish however to avail ourselves silenced . There are many critics , and some of great name , who contrive in the same breath to extol the poems ...
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... language , the ma- chine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particu- lar images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary ...
... language , the ma- chine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particu- lar images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary ...
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... language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or inform- ation was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
... language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or inform- ation was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
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... language can be brought words . But they are words of en - to a more exquisite degree of perfec- chantment . No sooner are they pro- nounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
... language can be brought words . But they are words of en - to a more exquisite degree of perfec- chantment . No sooner are they pro- nounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
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