The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... mind , there are none that can awaken an interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be valuable for the strong light they cast on ...
... mind , there are none that can awaken an interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be valuable for the strong light they cast on ...
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... mind which does not pretend to the dignity of a lesson , and a " baseless vision " is most conformable to the very essence of poetry , which ought never to be the means , but is in itself alone its own proper end and object . - Tom . ii ...
... mind which does not pretend to the dignity of a lesson , and a " baseless vision " is most conformable to the very essence of poetry , which ought never to be the means , but is in itself alone its own proper end and object . - Tom . ii ...
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... mind . These negligences would any where else be faults ; but Ariosto , who laboured all his verses and left these irregularities in them by design , has , in his language , in his very abandonment , so in- imitable a grace , that his ...
... mind . These negligences would any where else be faults ; but Ariosto , who laboured all his verses and left these irregularities in them by design , has , in his language , in his very abandonment , so in- imitable a grace , that his ...
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... mind afforded me an opportunity of introducing allusions to Scottish super- stitions which Shakspeare has not touched ; and which are still , in a great measure , new to the poetry of the stage . The play is , in fact , an experiment ...
... mind afforded me an opportunity of introducing allusions to Scottish super- stitions which Shakspeare has not touched ; and which are still , in a great measure , new to the poetry of the stage . The play is , in fact , an experiment ...
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... mind to pry into futurity he does it in the good old way , and at the good old time , and expresses it in the good old terms , ' Tis hallow - eve , and I have cast my fortune .'- ( p . 132. ) Burns the plowman could not have expressed ...
... mind to pry into futurity he does it in the good old way , and at the good old time , and expresses it in the good old terms , ' Tis hallow - eve , and I have cast my fortune .'- ( p . 132. ) Burns the plowman could not have expressed ...
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