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Page 8
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great ...
Page 13
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions ...
Page 35
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
Page 36
... whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
... whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
Page 39
... whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations ...
... whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations ...
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