The Quarterly Review, Volume 215John Murray, 1911 |
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... expression , maintained a permanence of form which resisted the assaults of time , and thus provided later Greek writers with the means , if they chose to use them , of reproducing the spirit and the expression of the ages of the past ...
... expression , maintained a permanence of form which resisted the assaults of time , and thus provided later Greek writers with the means , if they chose to use them , of reproducing the spirit and the expression of the ages of the past ...
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... expression to the pathos of the joys and sorrows of everyday life . Men read their lives in it and into it , and so are brought to turn to it again and again . In this twentieth century the Anthology has a value as well as a charm . It ...
... expression to the pathos of the joys and sorrows of everyday life . Men read their lives in it and into it , and so are brought to turn to it again and again . In this twentieth century the Anthology has a value as well as a charm . It ...
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... expressions of a passing age . In other instances it can only be reproduced by paraphrase , a method which has at times to be resorted to in the interpretation of that play upon words which is so common in the poems . No one has yet ...
... expressions of a passing age . In other instances it can only be reproduced by paraphrase , a method which has at times to be resorted to in the interpretation of that play upon words which is so common in the poems . No one has yet ...
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... expression of a striking idea , then many of them cannot be called by the name . ' What is an epigram ? a dwarfish whole , Its being brevity and wit its soul . " ' There can be no question that it was the existence of a large number of ...
... expression of a striking idea , then many of them cannot be called by the name . ' What is an epigram ? a dwarfish whole , Its being brevity and wit its soul . " ' There can be no question that it was the existence of a large number of ...
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concise in expression , and brought into being a literary type which has both excited the admiration and exercised the ingenuity of succeeding ages . Purists of various periods were inclined to protest against the inclusion in ...
concise in expression , and brought into being a literary type which has both excited the admiration and exercised the ingenuity of succeeding ages . Purists of various periods were inclined to protest against the inclusion in ...
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