The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... kind of poetry is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the East , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture , with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the ...
... kind of poetry is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the East , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture , with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the ...
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... kind ; it is filled with images at once splendid and pleasing , and is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the ...
... kind ; it is filled with images at once splendid and pleasing , and is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the ...
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... kind , and therefore easily invented ; and that there are few sentiments of rational praise or natural lamentation . " In the Silenus , he again rises to the dignity of philosophic sentiment and heroic poetry . The ad- dress to Varus is ...
... kind , and therefore easily invented ; and that there are few sentiments of rational praise or natural lamentation . " In the Silenus , he again rises to the dignity of philosophic sentiment and heroic poetry . The ad- dress to Varus is ...
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... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall therefore , from time to time , ex- amine his merit as a poet , without blind admiration , or wanton invective . ex- As Shakspeare is sometimes blamable for the ...
... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall therefore , from time to time , ex- amine his merit as a poet , without blind admiration , or wanton invective . ex- As Shakspeare is sometimes blamable for the ...
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... ideas and images peculiar to his station and office ; a beauty of the same kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully NO . 93 . 19 ADVENTURER .
... ideas and images peculiar to his station and office ; a beauty of the same kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully NO . 93 . 19 ADVENTURER .
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Términos y frases comunes
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