Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of him . No prose author in the history of mankind has exerted so much influence over the world as Plato . From him the Fathers ...
... writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of him . No prose author in the history of mankind has exerted so much influence over the world as Plato . From him the Fathers ...
Page x
... writer , Jean Paul Richter , says , that " to describe any scene well , the poet must make the bosom of a man his camera obscura , and look at it through this . " Shelley pursues this method in all his descriptions ; he always , as he ...
... writer , Jean Paul Richter , says , that " to describe any scene well , the poet must make the bosom of a man his camera obscura , and look at it through this . " Shelley pursues this method in all his descriptions ; he always , as he ...
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... writer may have equalled or surpassed those few great specimens of the Athenian drama which have been preserved to us , it is indisputable that the art itself never was understood or practised accord- ing to the true philosophy of it ...
... writer may have equalled or surpassed those few great specimens of the Athenian drama which have been preserved to us , it is indisputable that the art itself never was understood or practised accord- ing to the true philosophy of it ...
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... writer considers as moral truths ; and which are usually no more than specious flatteries of some gross vice or weakness , with which the author , in common with his auditors , are infected . Hence what has been called the classical and ...
... writer considers as moral truths ; and which are usually no more than specious flatteries of some gross vice or weakness , with which the author , in common with his auditors , are infected . Hence what has been called the classical and ...
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... writer has hitherto dared to show them precisely as they were . Barthélemi cannot be denied the praise of industry and system ; but he never forgets that he is a Christian and a Frenchman . Wieland , in his delightful novels , makes ...
... writer has hitherto dared to show them precisely as they were . Barthélemi cannot be denied the praise of industry and system ; but he never forgets that he is a Christian and a Frenchman . Wieland , in his delightful novels , makes ...
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