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... writers of the tion ; but takes the whole upon himself , and middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sets his images ... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves ...
... writers of the tion ; but takes the whole upon himself , and middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sets his images ... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves ...
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... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wot- ton , in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part ...
... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wot- ton , in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part ...
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... writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo.cular , are wonderful creations . They ... writer would have found impracticable , was elder generations , the sons of heaven and easy to him . The peculiar ...
... writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo.cular , are wonderful creations . They ... writer would have found impracticable , was elder generations , the sons of heaven and easy to him . The peculiar ...
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... writers who have espoused fit of depression or exultation , a jest thrown the same cause , Oldmixon , for instance ... writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps ...
... writers who have espoused fit of depression or exultation , a jest thrown the same cause , Oldmixon , for instance ... writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps ...
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... writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect , in this unfortunate performance , some concealed meaning more ... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in ...
... writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect , in this unfortunate performance , some concealed meaning more ... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in ...
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