Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... whole book , and every component part of it , is on a gigantic scale . The title is as long as an ordinary preface : the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library ...
... whole book , and every component part of it , is on a gigantic scale . The title is as long as an ordinary preface : the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library ...
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... whole course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on round the dying bed of Edward the Sixth , Cecil so bemeaned himself as to avoid , first , the displeasure of Northumberland , and afterwards the displeasure of Mary . He was ...
... whole course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on round the dying bed of Edward the Sixth , Cecil so bemeaned himself as to avoid , first , the displeasure of Northumberland , and afterwards the displeasure of Mary . He was ...
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... whole Dramatic Literature of a generation , are feelings and opinions of which the men of that generation generally partook . The greatest and most popular dramatists of the Elizabethan age treat religious subjects in a very remarkable ...
... whole Dramatic Literature of a generation , are feelings and opinions of which the men of that generation generally partook . The greatest and most popular dramatists of the Elizabethan age treat religious subjects in a very remarkable ...
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... whole history of the last two hundred and fifty years ! She had the happiest opportunity ever vouchsafed to any sovereign of esta- blishing perfect freedom of conscience throughout her dominions , without danger to her government ...
... whole history of the last two hundred and fifty years ! She had the happiest opportunity ever vouchsafed to any sovereign of esta- blishing perfect freedom of conscience throughout her dominions , without danger to her government ...
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... whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and imprisoned the most popular members . He would have called another Parliament . He would have given ...
... whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and imprisoned the most popular members . He would have called another Parliament . He would have given ...
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