The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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Page 234
... critic ob- serves , " If he meant this verse for an hen- decasyllable , there is a false quantity in so- lers . The first syllable is notoriously long . " This single observation , which would lead us to suspect that Mr. Warton's ...
... critic ob- serves , " If he meant this verse for an hen- decasyllable , there is a false quantity in so- lers . The first syllable is notoriously long . " This single observation , which would lead us to suspect that Mr. Warton's ...
Page 270
... ; and , entitled equally to the applause of the critic and the politician , they must have im- pressed foreign states with a high opinion of • 224 1 that government for which they were writ- ten , and 270 LIFE OF MILTON .
... ; and , entitled equally to the applause of the critic and the politician , they must have im- pressed foreign states with a high opinion of • 224 1 that government for which they were writ- ten , and 270 LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 468
... critic whom I have just named , as well as from Addison ; to whose taste , if not to whose power of intellect , I feel much more inclined to bow in submissive deference . When he formed these personages and blended them with the agents ...
... critic whom I have just named , as well as from Addison ; to whose taste , if not to whose power of intellect , I feel much more inclined to bow in submissive deference . When he formed these personages and blended them with the agents ...
Page 473
... critic , which had been so illustriously displayed in a variety of preced- ing instances , failed him in this ; as it did in almost every other when it was exercised on с A modern French critic ( La Harpe in his Lyceum , vol . xiv ...
... critic , which had been so illustriously displayed in a variety of preced- ing instances , failed him in this ; as it did in almost every other when it was exercised on с A modern French critic ( La Harpe in his Lyceum , vol . xiv ...
Page 474
... critic , must be pronounced to be one egregious failure . To the critical sagacity of Bentley may be ap plied what Virgil says of the sword of Metiscus . " Idque diu dum terga dabant palantia Teucri Suffecit : postquam arma Dei ad ...
... critic , must be pronounced to be one egregious failure . To the critical sagacity of Bentley may be ap plied what Virgil says of the sword of Metiscus . " Idque diu dum terga dabant palantia Teucri Suffecit : postquam arma Dei ad ...
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