Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 18
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
Pagina 23
... opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians ...
... opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians ...
Pagina 24
... opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or ...
... opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or ...
Pagina 31
... opinions , hated religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dex- terity of an advocate while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of ...
... opinions , hated religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dex- terity of an advocate while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of ...
Pagina 34
... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make prose- lytes , he had contented himself with ...
... opinion that James the Second was expelled simply because he was a Catholic , and that the Revolution was ... opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make prose- lytes , he had contented himself with ...
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