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... unconnected nature of the parts of our compositions . There are few historical anecdotes to render a comment on ancient poetry interesting ; for all that can ever be · known about the Greeks and Romans , has long PREFACE IX.
... unconnected nature of the parts of our compositions . There are few historical anecdotes to render a comment on ancient poetry interesting ; for all that can ever be · known about the Greeks and Romans , has long PREFACE IX.
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... poet . M. Sismondi is in- correct in stating that his political eminence was an exaggeration of after ages . He had bare- ly expired , when that eminence was emphati- cally avowed in writings that are still in being : and it was , on ...
... poet . M. Sismondi is in- correct in stating that his political eminence was an exaggeration of after ages . He had bare- ly expired , when that eminence was emphati- cally avowed in writings that are still in being : and it was , on ...
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... ( poetry ) to a high point of perfection : a personage to whom mankind owes much , even in those improve- ments which appear to be of recent origin , and to whom it has never ceased , more or less , through so many successive centuries ...
... ( poetry ) to a high point of perfection : a personage to whom mankind owes much , even in those improve- ments which appear to be of recent origin , and to whom it has never ceased , more or less , through so many successive centuries ...
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... poetry and philosophy and religion of Antiquity , drawn from the Greek and Roman classics and the oriental writers , Dante added that of Mahometism and Christianity ; and be- sides his own remarks and reflections in the character of a ...
... poetry and philosophy and religion of Antiquity , drawn from the Greek and Roman classics and the oriental writers , Dante added that of Mahometism and Christianity ; and be- sides his own remarks and reflections in the character of a ...
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... poetry of his original after doing this justice to my author once for all , I circumscribe my future observa- tions on Mr. Cary to his literal pretensions ; and here , it must be allowed , he is entitled to much encomium . Not that he ...
... poetry of his original after doing this justice to my author once for all , I circumscribe my future observa- tions on Mr. Cary to his literal pretensions ; and here , it must be allowed , he is entitled to much encomium . Not that he ...
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