Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... to light them . The first subject proposed by the Society to the poets of England was Dartmoor . I thought that they intended a covert sarcasm at their own projects . Their institution 96 ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE . 25.
... to light them . The first subject proposed by the Society to the poets of England was Dartmoor . I thought that they intended a covert sarcasm at their own projects . Their institution 96 ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE . 25.
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... England has been in all respects different . The consequence is , that English historical pictures are poems on canvas ; while Italian poems are pictures painted to the mind by means of words . Of this national characteristic the ...
... England has been in all respects different . The consequence is , that English historical pictures are poems on canvas ; while Italian poems are pictures painted to the mind by means of words . Of this national characteristic the ...
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... England , in the matter of ship - money ? Had they not taken from the king his ancient and most lawful power touching the order of knighthood ? Had they not provided that , after their dissolution , triennial parliaments should be ...
... England , in the matter of ship - money ? Had they not taken from the king his ancient and most lawful power touching the order of knighthood ? Had they not provided that , after their dissolution , triennial parliaments should be ...
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... England , and faithful stewards of their liberty and their wealth , to engage them for such causes in civil war , which both to liberty and to wealth is of all things the most hostile . Evil indeed must be the disease which is not more ...
... England , and faithful stewards of their liberty and their wealth , to engage them for such causes in civil war , which both to liberty and to wealth is of all things the most hostile . Evil indeed must be the disease which is not more ...
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... England , order that members of the Commons House of Parliament should be impeached of high treason at the bar of the Lords ; thereby violating both the trial by jury and the privileges of the House ; but , not content with breaking the ...
... England , order that members of the Commons House of Parliament should be impeached of high treason at the bar of the Lords ; thereby violating both the trial by jury and the privileges of the House ; but , not content with breaking the ...
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