Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page 39
... liberty whether it be or no . which I shall venture to take , But go on . SPEUSIPPUS . Prometheus begins thus : " Cœlus begat Saturn and Briareus , Cottus and Creius and Iapetus , Gyges and Hyperion , Phœbe , Tethys , Thea and Rhea and ...
... liberty whether it be or no . which I shall venture to take , But go on . SPEUSIPPUS . Prometheus begins thus : " Cœlus begat Saturn and Briareus , Cottus and Creius and Iapetus , Gyges and Hyperion , Phœbe , Tethys , Thea and Rhea and ...
Page 62
... liberty , are the three most powerful principles that have ever influenced the character of large masses of men . Each of them singly has often excited the greatest enthusiasm , and produced the most important changes . In the time of ...
... liberty , are the three most powerful principles that have ever influenced the character of large masses of men . Each of them singly has often excited the greatest enthusiasm , and produced the most important changes . In the time of ...
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... liberty , —the field of Marathon , —and the deadly pass where the Lion of Lacedæmon turned to bay.2 His poems on religious subjects also deserve the highest commendation . At the head of these must be placed the Ode to the Virgin . It ...
... liberty , —the field of Marathon , —and the deadly pass where the Lion of Lacedæmon turned to bay.2 His poems on religious subjects also deserve the highest commendation . At the head of these must be placed the Ode to the Virgin . It ...
Page 118
... 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 tolerable than such a medicine . Those ...
... 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 tolerable than such a medicine . Those ...
Page 134
... liberty before they had well ripened . Their flavour was harsh and bitter ; and we turned from them with loathing to the sweeter poisons of servitude . This is but for a time . England is sleeping on the lap of Dalilah , traitorously ...
... liberty before they had well ripened . Their flavour was harsh and bitter ; and we turned from them with loathing to the sweeter poisons of servitude . This is but for a time . England is sleeping on the lap of Dalilah , traitorously ...
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