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Page xix
... , who , in the language of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints , in a most inimitable manner , the gradual progress from the first origin . " He gives , " as Lessing says b 2 PREFACE xix.
... , who , in the language of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints , in a most inimitable manner , the gradual progress from the first origin . " He gives , " as Lessing says b 2 PREFACE xix.
Page xxiii
... language of measured prose . To him an excess of beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by a blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor ...
... language of measured prose . To him an excess of beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by a blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor ...
Page xxiv
... language , and institutions ; and it was in arranging , comparing , and arguing on these kind of general results , that Johnson's excellence lay . But he could not quit his hold of the common - place and mechanical , and apply the ...
... language , and institutions ; and it was in arranging , comparing , and arguing on these kind of general results , that Johnson's excellence lay . But he could not quit his hold of the common - place and mechanical , and apply the ...
Page xxvi
... language , and his tragedy , for the greater part , by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . " Yet after saying that “ his tragedy was skill , " he affirms in the next page , " His ...
... language , and his tragedy , for the greater part , by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . " Yet after saying that “ his tragedy was skill , " he affirms in the next page , " His ...
Page 43
... language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power . The imagination is an exaggerating and exclusive faculty : it takes from one thing to add to another : it accumulates circumstances together to give the greatest ...
... language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power . The imagination is an exaggerating and exclusive faculty : it takes from one thing to add to another : it accumulates circumstances together to give the greatest ...
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