Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education: Including a Lecture on the Poetry of PopeLongman, 1852 - 128 pages |
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... believe that , by the aid of Sir JOHN HERSCHEL , Sir DAVID BREWSTER , Professor DE MORGAN , Captain Kater , Dr. LARDNER , Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH , Sir WALTER SCOTT , Bishop_ THIRLWALL , Mr. THOMAS MOORE , Mr. J. FORSTER , Mr. KEIGHTLEY ...
... believe that , by the aid of Sir JOHN HERSCHEL , Sir DAVID BREWSTER , Professor DE MORGAN , Captain Kater , Dr. LARDNER , Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH , Sir WALTER SCOTT , Bishop_ THIRLWALL , Mr. THOMAS MOORE , Mr. J. FORSTER , Mr. KEIGHTLEY ...
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... believe that , in this respect , - and it is one not to be considered slightingly , — he would be found to occupy the second place , next , of course , to the universal Shak- speare himself . Allow me to cite a few instances . When ...
... believe that , in this respect , - and it is one not to be considered slightingly , — he would be found to occupy the second place , next , of course , to the universal Shak- speare himself . Allow me to cite a few instances . When ...
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... believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on this point , " From the time when the ' Pastorals ' appeared , heroic versification became matter of rule and compass , and , before long , all artists were on a level ...
... believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on this point , " From the time when the ' Pastorals ' appeared , heroic versification became matter of rule and compass , and , before long , all artists were on a level ...
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... believe with no more than perfect truth , the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen . The main objection alleged against it is , that being a professed translation of Homer , it is not Homeric , —that it is full of ...
... believe with no more than perfect truth , the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen . The main objection alleged against it is , that being a professed translation of Homer , it is not Homeric , —that it is full of ...
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... believe that they must have been nearly altogether com- pleted before he was thirty . Those which I may further have to quote from ( in doing which I shall hardly think it necessary to observe so much separate order between the ...
... believe that they must have been nearly altogether com- pleted before he was thirty . Those which I may further have to quote from ( in doing which I shall hardly think it necessary to observe so much separate order between the ...
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