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... style in art can claim no higher place or worthier office than that of herald or interpreter to a special community of workmen . If , however , my critical writing should be found liable to this charge , it will at least be ad- mitted ...
... style in art can claim no higher place or worthier office than that of herald or interpreter to a special community of workmen . If , however , my critical writing should be found liable to this charge , it will at least be ad- mitted ...
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... style be overcharged and overshining with bright sharp strokes and points , these are no fireworks of any mechanic's fashion : these are the phosphoric flashes of the sea - fire moving on the depth of the limitless and living sea ...
... style be overcharged and overshining with bright sharp strokes and points , these are no fireworks of any mechanic's fashion : these are the phosphoric flashes of the sea - fire moving on the depth of the limitless and living sea ...
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... style as any sign of negligence ; in the best work there must be no trace of a laborious or a languid hand . In all these points the style of Mr. Rossetti excels that of any English poet of our day . It has the fullest fervour and ...
... style as any sign of negligence ; in the best work there must be no trace of a laborious or a languid hand . In all these points the style of Mr. Rossetti excels that of any English poet of our day . It has the fullest fervour and ...
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... style who has nothing to convey worth con- veyance under cover of it . This is indeed a favourite saying of men who have no words in which to convey the thoughts which they have not ; of men born dumb who express by grunts and chokes ...
... style who has nothing to convey worth con- veyance under cover of it . This is indeed a favourite saying of men who have no words in which to convey the thoughts which they have not ; of men born dumb who express by grunts and chokes ...
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... style may not suffice to save it from the charges of darkness and difficulty . He is too great a master of speech to incur the blame of hard or tortuous expression ; and his thought is too sound and pure to be otherwise dark than as a ...
... style may not suffice to save it from the charges of darkness and difficulty . He is too great a master of speech to incur the blame of hard or tortuous expression ; and his thought is too sound and pure to be otherwise dark than as a ...
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Página 293 - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this?
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Página 141 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes...
Página 21 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
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Página 183 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 18 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.