American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 34Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1849 - American periodicals |
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... Poets are bound to fly , and this winged horse , which we looked at in perfect amazement , we should think was the very thing for them , carrying them to the star - light of Orion and Pleiades , and more too . To give our readers a ...
... Poets are bound to fly , and this winged horse , which we looked at in perfect amazement , we should think was the very thing for them , carrying them to the star - light of Orion and Pleiades , and more too . To give our readers a ...
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... poet : it falls upon his soul cold and monotonous as the unbroken moonlight . We must come between him and the source of his inspiration , and then - only then , recollect - will the light play and sparkle with life , and take a ...
... poet : it falls upon his soul cold and monotonous as the unbroken moonlight . We must come between him and the source of his inspiration , and then - only then , recollect - will the light play and sparkle with life , and take a ...
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... poet was a stranger . Gifted with an equally penetrating observation of human nature ; detesting vice as thoroughly ... poets themselves ; let us pro- ceed as in the case of Horace , to a critical examination of the satiri- cal ...
... poet was a stranger . Gifted with an equally penetrating observation of human nature ; detesting vice as thoroughly ... poets themselves ; let us pro- ceed as in the case of Horace , to a critical examination of the satiri- cal ...
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... poet indignantly scourges the lower and more contempti- ble habits of the Romans : ' JUBET a pręcone vocari Ipsos Trojugenas ; nam vexant limen et ipsi Nobiscum : da Prętori , da deinde Tribuno . ' The crier calls aloud : ( ' APPROACH ...
... poet indignantly scourges the lower and more contempti- ble habits of the Romans : ' JUBET a pręcone vocari Ipsos Trojugenas ; nam vexant limen et ipsi Nobiscum : da Prętori , da deinde Tribuno . ' The crier calls aloud : ( ' APPROACH ...
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... poet in exposing the enormities of vice , however established by custom or honored by the examples of the great , is most successfully and ingeniously carried out in the third satire . Umbritius , a member of what in modern society ...
... poet in exposing the enormities of vice , however established by custom or honored by the examples of the great , is most successfully and ingeniously carried out in the third satire . Umbritius , a member of what in modern society ...
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