Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... talents and virtues he admits that he formerly did not do justice . Serious as are the faults of the Essay on Government , a critic , while noticing those faults , should have abstained from using contemp- tuous language respecting the ...
... talents and virtues he admits that he formerly did not do justice . Serious as are the faults of the Essay on Government , a critic , while noticing those faults , should have abstained from using contemp- tuous language respecting the ...
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... talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with in- teresting quotations , and have the rare merit of really elucidating ...
... talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with in- teresting quotations , and have the rare merit of really elucidating ...
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... talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
... talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
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... talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second ...
... talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second ...
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... talent to clothe the thoughts of a pandar in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be com- pared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus ...
... talent to clothe the thoughts of a pandar in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be com- pared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus ...
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