Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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الصفحة 77
... excellence . I know nothing with which it can be compared . The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it . His words are the few- est and the best which it is possible to use . The first expression in which he clothes his ...
... excellence . I know nothing with which it can be compared . The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it . His words are the few- est and the best which it is possible to use . The first expression in which he clothes his ...
الصفحة 186
... excellence . Thus philosophy took its origin . Thus were produced those models of poetry , of oratory , and of the arts , which scarcely fall short of the standard of ideal excellence . Nothing is more conducive to happiness than the ...
... excellence . Thus philosophy took its origin . Thus were produced those models of poetry , of oratory , and of the arts , which scarcely fall short of the standard of ideal excellence . Nothing is more conducive to happiness than the ...
الصفحة 213
... excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to de- grade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern ...
... excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to de- grade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern ...
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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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admirable ALCIBIADES ancient appear Aristophanes army Athenian Athens beautiful Cæsar CALLICLES CALLIDEMUS cause century character CHARICLEA Charles Church circumstances constitution Court Cromwell dæmons danger Dante Demosthenes Divine Comedy doubt Dryden effect eminent enemies England English Euripides evil excellence favour feelings France genius glory Greece Greek Hallam Herodotus HIPPOMACHUS historians honour House human imagination influence intellect Italian Italy King language less liberty literature Long Parliament look Lord Machiavelli manner means measure ment merit Milton mind Mitford moral nation nature never Nicias noble opinion Parliament party passions peculiar person Petition of Right Petrarch Plutarch poem poet poetry political Prince principles produced Puritans reason reform reign rendered respect Revolution Rome scarcely seems Shakspeare society sophisms speech SPEUSIPPUS spirit statesmen strong style talents taste thing thought Thucydides tion truth tyrant virtues Whigs whole writers