Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... popular opinion , which , precisely because it can be ascribed to no particular person , must be taken as the exponent of the common national existence . To have achieved this revolution of critical sentiment with regard to the Homeric ...
... popular opinion , which , precisely because it can be ascribed to no particular person , must be taken as the exponent of the common national existence . To have achieved this revolution of critical sentiment with regard to the Homeric ...
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... popular min- strel had it in his power to describe for the first time the function of the gods , and to assign them appropriate names , were to betray a complete misconception both of the nature of popular poetry in general , and of the ...
... popular min- strel had it in his power to describe for the first time the function of the gods , and to assign them appropriate names , were to betray a complete misconception both of the nature of popular poetry in general , and of the ...
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... popular for the moment . He who prefers to study in this school , must be prepared for much depreciation , for its greatest excellences , even if he achieve them , are not the most obvious to the many . In discussing , for instance , a ...
... popular for the moment . He who prefers to study in this school , must be prepared for much depreciation , for its greatest excellences , even if he achieve them , are not the most obvious to the many . In discussing , for instance , a ...
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