Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... tion Johnson has thought fit to make century of study and meditation . him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius de- rived ...
... tion Johnson has thought fit to make century of study and meditation . him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius de- rived ...
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... tion of the seven Argive chiefs , by the principles of dramatic writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry , we shall ad- mit that it has never been surpassed ...
... tion of the seven Argive chiefs , by the principles of dramatic writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry , we shall ad- mit that it has never been surpassed ...
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... tion of an English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beautiful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the ...
... tion of an English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beautiful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the ...
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... tion ; and , after wine has been for a to the rays of the sun . The blaze of few months their daily fare , they be- truth and liberty may at first dazzle come more temperate than they had and bewilder nations which have ever been in ...
... tion ; and , after wine has been for a to the rays of the sun . The blaze of few months their daily fare , they be- truth and liberty may at first dazzle come more temperate than they had and bewilder nations which have ever been in ...
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... tion , and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand . The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mys- terious and terrible importance be- longed , on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with ...
... tion , and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand . The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mys- terious and terrible importance be- longed , on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with ...
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