The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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Page 366
... writer is far more justly appreciated by Sismondi ; but in delivering an opinion in contra- diction to that of Schlegel , it becomes us to acknowledge that , of all critics , he alone has done full justice to the Greek dramatists and to ...
... writer is far more justly appreciated by Sismondi ; but in delivering an opinion in contra- diction to that of Schlegel , it becomes us to acknowledge that , of all critics , he alone has done full justice to the Greek dramatists and to ...
Page 367
... writer , who has with so much ability and acute- ness characterised them . The task was very arduous . Never did any writer succeed in tragedy - scarcely did ever any one attempt it - who had so little fancy , so little sensibility , so ...
... writer , who has with so much ability and acute- ness characterised them . The task was very arduous . Never did any writer succeed in tragedy - scarcely did ever any one attempt it - who had so little fancy , so little sensibility , so ...
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... writer affirms nothing that is either true or false , but merely recommends , with a great variety of pathetical expres- sions , certain duties which it is impossible to dispute , there will seldom be much for criticism to lay hold of ...
... writer affirms nothing that is either true or false , but merely recommends , with a great variety of pathetical expres- sions , certain duties which it is impossible to dispute , there will seldom be much for criticism to lay hold of ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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