Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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الصفحة 141
... critic should conceive classes of composition which had never existed , and then investigate their principles , would be as unreasonable as the demand of Nebuchadnezzar , who expected his magicians first to tell him his dream and then ...
... critic should conceive classes of composition which had never existed , and then investigate their principles , would be as unreasonable as the demand of Nebuchadnezzar , who expected his magicians first to tell him his dream and then ...
الصفحة 162
... critics of our time will form an opinion diametrically opposite as to these very points . Some will , I fear , be ... critic pays him on his adherence to the historical circumstances of the time in which he has chosen his subject ; that ...
... critics of our time will form an opinion diametrically opposite as to these very points . Some will , I fear , be ... critic pays him on his adherence to the historical circumstances of the time in which he has chosen his subject ; that ...
الصفحة 338
... criticism improves ; and that the science of criticism , like every other science , is constantly tending towards perfection . As experiments are multiplied , principles are better understood . In some countries , in our own , for ...
... criticism improves ; and that the science of criticism , like every other science , is constantly tending towards perfection . As experiments are multiplied , principles are better understood . In some countries , in our own , for ...
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CONTENTS | xxxiv |
ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE Knights | 20 |
SCENES FROM ATHENIAN REVELS Knights Quar | 30 |
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