Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... representing the motion and the oscillations of human genius . Pericles had a very long adminis- tration . He was Prime Minister of Athens for upwards of one entire genera- tion . He died in the year 429 before Christ , and in a very ...
... representing the motion and the oscillations of human genius . Pericles had a very long adminis- tration . He was Prime Minister of Athens for upwards of one entire genera- tion . He died in the year 429 before Christ , and in a very ...
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... represented by able successors ; and , above all others , there is the one philosopher who played with men's minds ( according to Lord Bacon's comparison ) as freely as ever his princely pupil with their persons , there is Ar stotle ...
... represented by able successors ; and , above all others , there is the one philosopher who played with men's minds ( according to Lord Bacon's comparison ) as freely as ever his princely pupil with their persons , there is Ar stotle ...
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... represented before in English Literature . It may be questioned , however , whether the pieces for which he claimed this distinction are described most exactly by the phrase " impassioned prose . " Their peculiarity is not so much that ...
... represented before in English Literature . It may be questioned , however , whether the pieces for which he claimed this distinction are described most exactly by the phrase " impassioned prose . " Their peculiarity is not so much that ...
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... tion among mankind , be represented to the human imagination forever by De Quincey's Three Ladies of Sorrow and his sketch of their figures and kingdoms . III SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) THE METAPHYSICAL POETS [ 44 DAVID MASSON.
... tion among mankind , be represented to the human imagination forever by De Quincey's Three Ladies of Sorrow and his sketch of their figures and kingdoms . III SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) THE METAPHYSICAL POETS [ 44 DAVID MASSON.
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... represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that 45.
... represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that 45.
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