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Page 6
... measures the size . His similes are the il- tion which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the ... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge ...
... measures the size . His similes are the il- tion which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the ... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge ...
Page 8
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be ...
Page 42
... measures for stop- ping the evil , appears to us very doubtful , and must , we think , have appeared doubtful to ... measure the result of two peculiarities , which the critics of the French school consider as defects - from the ...
... measures for stop- ping the evil , appears to us very doubtful , and must , we think , have appeared doubtful to ... measure the result of two peculiarities , which the critics of the French school consider as defects - from the ...
Page 43
... measure , independent of those circumstances poets , or even good versifiers , they always which regulate the style of composition in wrote with meaning , and sometimes with wit . prose . But with that inferior species of poe - Nothing ...
... measure , independent of those circumstances poets , or even good versifiers , they always which regulate the style of composition in wrote with meaning , and sometimes with wit . prose . But with that inferior species of poe - Nothing ...
Page 49
... measure removed from his poems . But his carelessness he retained to the last . If towards the close of his life he less frequently went wrong from negligence , it was only because long habits of composition rendered it more easy to go ...
... measure removed from his poems . But his carelessness he retained to the last . If towards the close of his life he less frequently went wrong from negligence , it was only because long habits of composition rendered it more easy to go ...
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