The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... writer who had stood in the first order of intellectual merit . The era which was consti- tuted by Dryden's genius has a special importance in having established , at a decisive juncture , the original and independent course of ...
... writer who had stood in the first order of intellectual merit . The era which was consti- tuted by Dryden's genius has a special importance in having established , at a decisive juncture , the original and independent course of ...
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... writer who has never , we believe , been equalled in this country in point of versatility of talent , and whose power and ingenuity of thought will serve for the instruction of all nations and of all ages . It has been customary for the ...
... writer who has never , we believe , been equalled in this country in point of versatility of talent , and whose power and ingenuity of thought will serve for the instruction of all nations and of all ages . It has been customary for the ...
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... writers is observable through a common development of one class of fictions , the Fable of La Fontaine was con- ceived chiefly in the Greek , while the Fable of Dryden was conceived exclusively in the Romantic style . It would be diffi ...
... writers is observable through a common development of one class of fictions , the Fable of La Fontaine was con- ceived chiefly in the Greek , while the Fable of Dryden was conceived exclusively in the Romantic style . It would be diffi ...
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... writers , even conceding their alleged similarity in license , were wholly different . The character of society , in our own day , exhibits no such antagonism to the sixteenth as to the seventeenth century - no such difference from the ...
... writers , even conceding their alleged similarity in license , were wholly different . The character of society , in our own day , exhibits no such antagonism to the sixteenth as to the seventeenth century - no such difference from the ...
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... writer . But these conflicting positions seem similarly indefensible . A poet , if he would be popular , must , in a certain degree , be the creature of society ; even if he would be unpopular , he cannot hope , in his own day , to ...
... writer . But these conflicting positions seem similarly indefensible . A poet , if he would be popular , must , in a certain degree , be the creature of society ; even if he would be unpopular , he cannot hope , in his own day , to ...
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Seite 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Seite 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Seite 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Seite 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Seite 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Seite 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Seite 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Seite 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Seite 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Seite 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!