Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 15
... nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot identify our- selves with the characters , as in ...
... nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot identify our- selves with the characters , as in ...
Pagina 17
... nature of that species of composi- tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence ...
... nature of that species of composi- tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence ...
Pagina 25
... nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim re- semblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in mysterious gloom . Perhaps the gods and ...
... nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim re- semblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in mysterious gloom . Perhaps the gods and ...
Pagina 26
... nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
... nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even exults . Against the sword of Michael , against the thunder of Jehovah , against the ...
Pagina 27
... nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , a land of darkness , as darkness itself ...
... nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , a land of darkness , as darkness itself ...
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