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... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
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... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds it- self , without catching a glimpse of the gor- geous and terrible panoply which it is ac- customed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over every ...
... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds it- self , without catching a glimpse of the gor- geous and terrible panoply which it is ac- customed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over every ...
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... look on the fea- tures , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive ...
... look on the fea- tures , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive ...
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... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
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... look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for existing abuses . In every venerable precedent they pass by what is essential , and take only what is accidental : they keep out of sight what is ...
... look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for existing abuses . In every venerable precedent they pass by what is essential , and take only what is accidental : they keep out of sight what is ...
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