Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... present gene- ration . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
... present gene- ration . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
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... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re- verence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the ...
... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re- verence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the ...
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... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the ...
... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the ...
Pagina 21
... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But ...
... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But ...
Pagina 32
... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ...
... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ...
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