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... poet . Pharisees . The author does not attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject ...
... poet . Pharisees . The author does not attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject ...
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... poet , the statesman , the philo- sopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philo- sopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
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... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain un- soundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much ... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " . These are the fruits of the ...
... poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain un- soundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much ... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " . These are the fruits of the ...
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... poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately ac- quainted ...
... poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately ac- quainted ...
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