Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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Page 37
... reign , the conduct of Charles , from his ac- cession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution and condemn the rebellion , mention one act of ...
... reign , the conduct of Charles , from his ac- cession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution and condemn the rebellion , mention one act of ...
Page 66
... reign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The sultans have often been com- pelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular vizier . From the same cause ...
... reign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The sultans have often been com- pelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular vizier . From the same cause ...
Page 118
... reigns of Elizabeth and James the First is a strong confirmation of this remark . The greatest works of imagination that the world has ever seen were produced at that period . The national taste , in the mean time , was to the last ...
... reigns of Elizabeth and James the First is a strong confirmation of this remark . The greatest works of imagination that the world has ever seen were produced at that period . The national taste , in the mean time , was to the last ...
Page 119
... reign of Elizabeth , the fashionable poetry had degenerated . It retained few vestiges of the imagination of earlier times . It had not yet been subjected to the rules of good taste . Affectation had completely tainted madrigals and ...
... reign of Elizabeth , the fashionable poetry had degenerated . It retained few vestiges of the imagination of earlier times . It had not yet been subjected to the rules of good taste . Affectation had completely tainted madrigals and ...
Page 183
... reign of George the Second , in which the rise of Methodism is not even men- tioned . A hundred years hence , this breed of authors will , we hope , be extinct . If it should still exist , the late ministe- rial interregnum will be ...
... reign of George the Second , in which the rise of Methodism is not even men- tioned . A hundred years hence , this breed of authors will , we hope , be extinct . If it should still exist , the late ministe- rial interregnum will be ...
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