Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted him- self of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted him- self of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
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... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of ...
... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of ...
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... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is phi ...
... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is phi ...
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... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our ...
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