The Poems of OssianBernhard Tauchnitz, 1847 - 382 pages |
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... fire and sword . His orders were but ill executed ; for his son , Caracalla , was at the head of the army , and his thoughts were entirely taken up with the hopes of his father's death , and with schemes to supplant his brother Geta ...
... fire and sword . His orders were but ill executed ; for his son , Caracalla , was at the head of the army , and his thoughts were entirely taken up with the hopes of his father's death , and with schemes to supplant his brother Geta ...
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... fire , which are the soul of poetry . For , many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous , are favourable to the poetical spirit . That state in which human nature shoots wild and free , though unfit for other improvements ...
... fire , which are the soul of poetry . For , many circumstances of those times which we call barbarous , are favourable to the poetical spirit . That state in which human nature shoots wild and free , though unfit for other improvements ...
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... fire and the enthusiasm of the most early times , combined with an amazing degree of regularity and art . We find tenderness , and even delicacy of sentiment , predominant over fierceness and barbarity . Our hearts are melted with the ...
... fire and the enthusiasm of the most early times , combined with an amazing degree of regularity and art . We find tenderness , and even delicacy of sentiment , predominant over fierceness and barbarity . Our hearts are melted with the ...
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... fire the passions in a higher degree ; and of consequence become happier materials to a poe- tical genius , than the same events when scattered through the wide circle of a more varied action and cultivated life . Homer is a more ...
... fire the passions in a higher degree ; and of consequence become happier materials to a poe- tical genius , than the same events when scattered through the wide circle of a more varied action and cultivated life . Homer is a more ...
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... fire ; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur . Homer hurries you along ; Ossian elevates and fixes you in astonishment . Homer is most sublime in actions and battles ; Ossian , in description and sentiment . In the pathetic ...
... fire ; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur . Homer hurries you along ; Ossian elevates and fixes you in astonishment . Homer is most sublime in actions and battles ; Ossian , in description and sentiment . In the pathetic ...
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The Poems of Ossian James MacPherson,Hugh 1718-1800 Critical Dissert Blair No preview available - 2016 |
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