Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... nature and habit one of those who follow , not one of those who lead . Nothing that is recorded , either of his words or of his actions , indicates intellectual or moral elevation . But his talents , though not brilliant , were of an ...
... nature and habit one of those who follow , not one of those who lead . Nothing that is recorded , either of his words or of his actions , indicates intellectual or moral elevation . But his talents , though not brilliant , were of an ...
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... natural that so odious and absurd a plot should end , in the ruin of its contrivers . In the mean time , Cecil quietly extricated himself , and , having been successively patronised by Henry , by Somerset , and by Northumberland ...
... natural that so odious and absurd a plot should end , in the ruin of its contrivers . In the mean time , Cecil quietly extricated himself , and , having been successively patronised by Henry , by Somerset , and by Northumberland ...
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... nature or by art , could resist , with arms before which rivers parted like the Jordan , and ramparts fell down like the walls of Jericho . The great masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's warlike ...
... nature or by art , could resist , with arms before which rivers parted like the Jordan , and ramparts fell down like the walls of Jericho . The great masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's warlike ...
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... natural checks were strong . There was one great and effectual limitation on the royal authority , the knowledge that , if the patience of the nation were severely tried , the nation would put forth its strength , and that its strength ...
... natural checks were strong . There was one great and effectual limitation on the royal authority , the knowledge that , if the patience of the nation were severely tried , the nation would put forth its strength , and that its strength ...
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... nature , Are burnt and purged away . ” These lines , we suspect , would have raised a tremen- dous storm in the theatre at any time during the reign of Charles the Second . They were clearly not written by a zealous Protestant , or for ...
... nature , Are burnt and purged away . ” These lines , we suspect , would have raised a tremen- dous storm in the theatre at any time during the reign of Charles the Second . They were clearly not written by a zealous Protestant , or for ...
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