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... kind is that the writer shall be as one who walks in a mist , seeing only what is immediately before him . More time for continuous reading , not alone in the poetry but in the philosophy and criticism of the period , together with more ...
... kind is that the writer shall be as one who walks in a mist , seeing only what is immediately before him . More time for continuous reading , not alone in the poetry but in the philosophy and criticism of the period , together with more ...
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... edition , Cambridge , 1903. I shall be glad to receive corrections or additions from any who will be kind enough to send them . ROCHESTER , NEW YORK . R. D. H. CONTENTS CHAPTER PART I THE ATTITUDE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY X PREFACE.
... edition , Cambridge , 1903. I shall be glad to receive corrections or additions from any who will be kind enough to send them . ROCHESTER , NEW YORK . R. D. H. CONTENTS CHAPTER PART I THE ATTITUDE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY X PREFACE.
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... kind often while he was in England , there is no escaping the significance or the influence of such a tribute from an eminent foreign poet and critic . Voltaire's opinion tallied so closely with that of the leading Englishmen of the ...
... kind often while he was in England , there is no escaping the significance or the influence of such a tribute from an eminent foreign poet and critic . Voltaire's opinion tallied so closely with that of the leading Englishmen of the ...
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... kind ever written . The effect upon the public of such an increasing flow of Miltonic adulation must have been very great . So great indeed was it that— by an impish irony which would have delighted Swift - the most austere and lofty of ...
... kind ever written . The effect upon the public of such an increasing flow of Miltonic adulation must have been very great . So great indeed was it that— by an impish irony which would have delighted Swift - the most austere and lofty of ...
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... kind of measure of the exaltation of the mind in its moral and religious sentiments . " 2 Thomas Warton , though unwill- ing to go so far as this , anticipated Tennyson's oft - quoted dictum by asserting , " He who wishes to know ...
... kind of measure of the exaltation of the mind in its moral and religious sentiments . " 2 Thomas Warton , though unwill- ing to go so far as this , anticipated Tennyson's oft - quoted dictum by asserting , " He who wishes to know ...
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