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Page 109
... literary and rhetorical crucible , and come out highly intellectualised ; come out in a form which strongly impresses us , indeed , but which no longer impresses us in the same way as when it was uttered by Homer . The antithesis of the ...
... literary and rhetorical crucible , and come out highly intellectualised ; come out in a form which strongly impresses us , indeed , but which no longer impresses us in the same way as when it was uttered by Homer . The antithesis of the ...
Page 172
... literary opinion , possessing within certain limits a clear sense of what is right and wrong , sound and unsound ... literary opin- ion of Europe , if not in the literary opinion of one nation , in fifty years , if not in five ...
... literary opinion , possessing within certain limits a clear sense of what is right and wrong , sound and unsound ... literary opin- ion of Europe , if not in the literary opinion of one nation , in fifty years , if not in five ...
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... literary qualities , —a true sense for his object of study , and a single - hearted care for it . He had both ; but he had the second even more eminently than the first . He greatly developed the first through means of the second . In ...
... literary qualities , —a true sense for his object of study , and a single - hearted care for it . He had both ; but he had the second even more eminently than the first . He greatly developed the first through means of the second . In ...
Contents
Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
England and the Italian Question | 65 |
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