Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Thomas De Quincey. AUTHOR'S LIBRARY EDITION . BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS , AND ESSAYS ON THE POETS . BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY . TWO VOLUMES IN ONE . AND CO . BOSTON : JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY , LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS , AND FIELDS , OSGOOD , & Co ...
Thomas De Quincey. AUTHOR'S LIBRARY EDITION . BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS , AND ESSAYS ON THE POETS . BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY . TWO VOLUMES IN ONE . AND CO . BOSTON : JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY , LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS , AND FIELDS , OSGOOD , & Co ...
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... poets , and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian . How slender , we can see in his Travels . ' Of modern authors , none as yet had been published with notes , commentaries , or critical collations of the text ; and , accordingly ...
... poets , and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian . How slender , we can see in his Travels . ' Of modern authors , none as yet had been published with notes , commentaries , or critical collations of the text ; and , accordingly ...
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... poetic faculty , as existing in himself , forbade his sympathizing with Shakspeare ; the proportions were too colossal for his delicate vision ; and yet , as one who sought popu- larity himself , he durst not shock what perhaps he ...
... poetic faculty , as existing in himself , forbade his sympathizing with Shakspeare ; the proportions were too colossal for his delicate vision ; and yet , as one who sought popu- larity himself , he durst not shock what perhaps he ...
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... poets are the two leading female characters that classi- cal antiquity offers to our respect , but assuredly not to our impassioned love , as disciplined and exalted in the school of Shakspeare . They challenge our admiration , severe ...
... poets are the two leading female characters that classi- cal antiquity offers to our respect , but assuredly not to our impassioned love , as disciplined and exalted in the school of Shakspeare . They challenge our admiration , severe ...
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... poets could not exhibit any approxima- tions to female character , without violating the truth of Grecian life , and shocking the feelings of the audience . The drama with the Greeks , as with us , though much less than with us , was a ...
... poets could not exhibit any approxima- tions to female character , without violating the truth of Grecian life , and shocking the feelings of the audience . The drama with the Greeks , as with us , though much less than with us , was a ...
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