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" ... of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakspeare was ; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, sequacious, like those of the planets ; not agile and assimilative ; not attracting... "
Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eater - Side 290
af Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 347 sider
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A Dictionary of the English Language, Containing the Pronunciation ...

Alexander Reid - 1845 - 638 sider
...solemn — 2* IXTEOnfCTIOJf. lequacioiu, Mice those of the planets ; not agile and assimilative ; fat attracting all things within its own sphere ; not...grandeur. Yet, merely from this quality of grandeur, his intellect demanded a larger infusion of Lalinity into his diction. For the eamc reason (and without...
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Words: Their Use and Abuse

William Mathews - 1876 - 474 sider
...sequacious, like those of the planets; not agile and assimilative; not attracting all things into its sphere; not multiform: repulsion was the law of his...demanded a larger infusion of Latinity into his diction." De Quincey concludes, therefore, that the true scholar will manifest a partiality for neither part...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 2

Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 490 sider
...writer, not only in the proportion by which he transcends other writers as to extent and as to subtlety of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity....wings) he enriched his diction with Hellenisms and with Hebraisms1 ; but never, as could be easy to show, without a 1 The diction of Milton is a case absolutely...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 2

Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 476 sider
...writer, not only in the proportion by which he transcends other writers as to extent and as to subtlety of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity....his diction. For the same reason (and without such aida he would have had no proper element in which to move his wings) he enriched his diction with Hellenisms...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 2

Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 470 sider
...writer, not only in the proportion by which he transcends other writers as to extent and as to subtlety of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity....wings) he enriched his diction with Hellenisms and with Hebraisms1 ; but never, as could be easy to show, without a 1 The diction of Milton is a case absolutely...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 2

Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 472 sider
...attracting all things within its own sphere ; not multiform : repulsion was the law of his intellect—he moved in solitary grandeur. Yet, merely from this...would have had no proper element in which to move hia wings) he enriched his diction with Hellenisms and with Hebraisms 1 ; but never, as could be easy...
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