Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great fe- licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , 2 MILTON .
... and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great fe- licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , 2 MILTON .
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... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
Pagina 14
... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
Pagina 17
... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ” to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ” to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
Pagina 26
... seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the ... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that ...
... seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and graceful porticoes in which his countrymen paid their vows to the ... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that ...
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