Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 98
... Germans , however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages , as all of those here mentioned ( excepting enly Ariosto ) have in one part of their works been most powerfully naturalized in English , it still re- mains t ...
... Germans , however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages , as all of those here mentioned ( excepting enly Ariosto ) have in one part of their works been most powerfully naturalized in English , it still re- mains t ...
Page 115
... German language than the illimitable weavers of prose . The line or the stanza reins up the poet tightly to his theme , and will not saffer him to expatiate . Gradually , therefore , Pope came to read the Homeric Greek , but never accu ...
... German language than the illimitable weavers of prose . The line or the stanza reins up the poet tightly to his theme , and will not saffer him to expatiate . Gradually , therefore , Pope came to read the Homeric Greek , but never accu ...
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... German literature was and is in a condi- tion of total anarchy . With this solitary exception , no name , even in the most narrow section of knowledge or of power , has ever been able in that country to challenge unconditional reverence ...
... German literature was and is in a condi- tion of total anarchy . With this solitary exception , no name , even in the most narrow section of knowledge or of power , has ever been able in that country to challenge unconditional reverence ...
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... German mind . But no matter whence arising , or how interpreted , the fact is what we have described ; abso- lute confusion , the anarch old ' of Milton , is the one deity whose sceptre is there paramount ; and yet there it was , in ...
... German mind . But no matter whence arising , or how interpreted , the fact is what we have described ; abso- lute confusion , the anarch old ' of Milton , is the one deity whose sceptre is there paramount ; and yet there it was , in ...
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... German emperor and other princes , Frankfort had the means within herself of giving a liberal tone to the pursuits of her superior citizens , and of co- operating in no inconsiderable degree with the general movement of the times ...
... German emperor and other princes , Frankfort had the means within herself of giving a liberal tone to the pursuits of her superior citizens , and of co- operating in no inconsiderable degree with the general movement of the times ...
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