Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Volumen1Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the ...
... considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the ...
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... Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the ad- 1 John Newbery , 1713-1767 , a well - known publisher , " the first to make the issue of books ...
... Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the ad- 1 John Newbery , 1713-1767 , a well - known publisher , " the first to make the issue of books ...
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... considered judgments have been pronounced , we feel inclined to dwell on it a little longer . The most fatal error which a poet can possibly commit in the management of his machinery , is that of attempting to philosophise too much ...
... considered judgments have been pronounced , we feel inclined to dwell on it a little longer . The most fatal error which a poet can possibly commit in the management of his machinery , is that of attempting to philosophise too much ...
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... considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the most terrible sanctions , and the strangely fascinating desire of having some visible and ...
... considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the most terrible sanctions , and the strangely fascinating desire of having some visible and ...
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... considered in the essay on Hallam's Constitutional History . 2 In 1655 , after the rising of Penruddock and Grove , Cromwell divided England into twelve districts , placing over each a major - general with ample powers . The major ...
... considered in the essay on Hallam's Constitutional History . 2 In 1655 , after the rising of Penruddock and Grove , Cromwell divided England into twelve districts , placing over each a major - general with ample powers . The major ...
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Página 301 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 23 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Página 286 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 52 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 350 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 23 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 270 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 45 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 319 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 352 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.