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We have thus minutely traced out this course of inconsistency and contradiction in particular instances , because they are highly illustrative of the character of Virgil's work , if not of his mind . After the political and courtly idea ...
We have thus minutely traced out this course of inconsistency and contradiction in particular instances , because they are highly illustrative of the character of Virgil's work , if not of his mind . After the political and courtly idea ...
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This is not grandeur , but extravagance ; nor is it vastness , but indistinctness , of which the impression is left upon the mind . It is followed by a description of the countenance and gorge of Pluto , which all readers must remember ...
This is not grandeur , but extravagance ; nor is it vastness , but indistinctness , of which the impression is left upon the mind . It is followed by a description of the countenance and gorge of Pluto , which all readers must remember ...
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The range of the mind is fixed ; the fibre cannot be stretched , and the attempt would strain and tear it . It is too late , speak- ing generally , to acquire the aptitudes of the old soldier of politics - his flexibility and elasticity ...
The range of the mind is fixed ; the fibre cannot be stretched , and the attempt would strain and tear it . It is too late , speak- ing generally , to acquire the aptitudes of the old soldier of politics - his flexibility and elasticity ...
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Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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