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... earth marks out the extent of the poet's genius ; but the world itself seems too narrow a confinement for that of the critic . * And though his thoughts are sometimes stretched to an immeasurable size , yet they are always great without ...
... earth marks out the extent of the poet's genius ; but the world itself seems too narrow a confinement for that of the critic . * And though his thoughts are sometimes stretched to an immeasurable size , yet they are always great without ...
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... earth , when the inhabitants of Lystra would have sacrificed to him ? Let his writings be examined and judged by the Bibliotheca Græca , 1. 4. c . 31 . severest test of the severest critics , and they cannot be found deficient ; nay ...
... earth , when the inhabitants of Lystra would have sacrificed to him ? Let his writings be examined and judged by the Bibliotheca Græca , 1. 4. c . 31 . severest test of the severest critics , and they cannot be found deficient ; nay ...
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... earth , and not to rouse them up . " + Neither does an expression of Herodotus fall short of it , " when he calls beautiful women , " the pains of the eye . " Though this indeed may admit of some excuse , since in his history it is ...
... earth , and not to rouse them up . " + Neither does an expression of Herodotus fall short of it , " when he calls beautiful women , " the pains of the eye . " Though this indeed may admit of some excuse , since in his history it is ...
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... earth marks out the vast reach and capacity of Homer's ideas , when he says , * • While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound , She stalks on earth.- Mr. Pope . There is the same evidence of a generous heart , in the Prince of ...
... earth marks out the vast reach and capacity of Homer's ideas , when he says , * • While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound , She stalks on earth.- Mr. Pope . There is the same evidence of a generous heart , in the Prince of ...
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... earth beeu then , all earth Had to her centre shook.- The thought of " fiery arches being drawn over the armies by the fight of flaming arrows , " may give us some idea of Mil- Iliad . p . ver . 388 . Leap'd from his throne , lest ...
... earth beeu then , all earth Had to her centre shook.- The thought of " fiery arches being drawn over the armies by the fight of flaming arrows , " may give us some idea of Mil- Iliad . p . ver . 388 . Leap'd from his throne , lest ...
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