The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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Page 42
... conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between them . Virgil , it is true , has followed Homer more closely , reducing however ...
... conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between them . Virgil , it is true , has followed Homer more closely , reducing however ...
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... conduct of the story , instead of requiring him to emulate their spirit upon a theme adapted to his own times , studies , and peculiar bent of genius . We have been unavoidably led into this general line of reflec- tion , by the volume ...
... conduct of the story , instead of requiring him to emulate their spirit upon a theme adapted to his own times , studies , and peculiar bent of genius . We have been unavoidably led into this general line of reflec- tion , by the volume ...
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... conduct of the work will naturally be expected from us . In this Mr. Southey had to struggle with two great difficulties . The poem being entirely mythological , and the agents , generally speaking , having little in common with ...
... conduct of the work will naturally be expected from us . In this Mr. Southey had to struggle with two great difficulties . The poem being entirely mythological , and the agents , generally speaking , having little in common with ...
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... conducting a war purely and systematically defensive . In the ope- rations of an individual campaign , such a mode of warfare may be prudent and advantageous ; but it appears to us that the adoption of it , as a fixed principle , would ...
... conducting a war purely and systematically defensive . In the ope- rations of an individual campaign , such a mode of warfare may be prudent and advantageous ; but it appears to us that the adoption of it , as a fixed principle , would ...
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... conduct of Russia in the war of 1809 ; but she will recollect that the hostilities of that power were languid and evidently reluctant ; and although at the peace of Vienna she was compelled to aban don a portion of her Polish territory ...
... conduct of Russia in the war of 1809 ; but she will recollect that the hostilities of that power were languid and evidently reluctant ; and although at the peace of Vienna she was compelled to aban don a portion of her Polish territory ...
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