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... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure seems ...
... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure seems ...
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... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret ...
... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret ...
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... nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the ... natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we think , is clearly ...
... nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the ... natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we think , is clearly ...
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... nature is victorious over the ex - demnity and Oblivion , had set a mark on the tremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot poor , blind , deserted poet , and held him up by be conceived without horror , he deliberates , name to the ...
... nature is victorious over the ex - demnity and Oblivion , had set a mark on the tremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot poor , blind , deserted poet , and held him up by be conceived without horror , he deliberates , name to the ...
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... nature of the devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? If it were possible that a people , brought up under an ...
... nature of the devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the struggles of the tremendous exorcism ? If it were possible that a people , brought up under an ...
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