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... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp ...
... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp ...
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... tion , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled . " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing ...
... tion , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled . " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing ...
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... tion which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the made it what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in and dramatic only in semblance . He has not some ...
... tion which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the made it what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in and dramatic only in semblance . He has not some ...
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... tion , but has also an air of dignity and sin- Collects of the English Liturgy - the noble cerity which makes even the prejudices and poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly errors with which it abounds respectable . a collect in ...
... tion , but has also an air of dignity and sin- Collects of the English Liturgy - the noble cerity which makes even the prejudices and poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly errors with which it abounds respectable . a collect in ...
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... tion and the Animadversions on the Remon - lated intellect than that propensity which , for strant . But the length to which our remarks want of a better name , we will venture to have already extended renders this impossible . christen ...
... tion and the Animadversions on the Remon - lated intellect than that propensity which , for strant . But the length to which our remarks want of a better name , we will venture to have already extended renders this impossible . christen ...
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