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Page 34
... interest from the very circumstances which debase it . The original proportions are rendered more striking , by the contrast which they present to the mean and incongruous addi- tions . The history does not appear to be the fruit of ...
... interest from the very circumstances which debase it . The original proportions are rendered more striking , by the contrast which they present to the mean and incongruous addi- tions . The history does not appear to be the fruit of ...
Page 35
... interest what they have received . We extol Bacon , and sneer at Aqui- nas . But if their situations had been changed , Bacon might have been the Angelical Doctor , the most subtle Aristotelian of the schools ; the Dominican might have ...
... interest what they have received . We extol Bacon , and sneer at Aqui- nas . But if their situations had been changed , Bacon might have been the Angelical Doctor , the most subtle Aristotelian of the schools ; the Dominican might have ...
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... interest to the court . But nothing could deaden his sensibi- lity to excellence . We are unwilling to accuse him severely , because the same disposition , which prompted him to pay so generous a tribute to the memory of a poet whom his ...
... interest to the court . But nothing could deaden his sensibi- lity to excellence . We are unwilling to accuse him severely , because the same disposition , which prompted him to pay so generous a tribute to the memory of a poet whom his ...
Page 52
... interest of the narrative and the beauty of the style were aided by the imposing effect of recitation - by the splendour of the spectacle - by the powerful influence of sympathy . A critic who could have The faults of Herodotus are the ...
... interest of the narrative and the beauty of the style were aided by the imposing effect of recitation - by the splendour of the spectacle - by the powerful influence of sympathy . A critic who could have The faults of Herodotus are the ...
Page 58
... interest and delight , not world which had never existed except in the because it furnished a contrast to the present , description of a fantastic school of writers . but because it had led to the present . He re- These second - hand ...
... interest and delight , not world which had never existed except in the because it furnished a contrast to the present , description of a fantastic school of writers . but because it had led to the present . He re- These second - hand ...
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