Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872 - 855 pages |
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... conduct and diction , bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas . Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra ...
... conduct and diction , bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas . Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra ...
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... conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most me- morable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes ...
... conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most me- morable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes ...
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... conduct of Charles , from his accession 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 James the ...
... conduct of Charles , from his accession 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 James the ...
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... conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that rela- tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and ...
... conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that rela- tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and ...
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... conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men who , in spite of much that was ridiculous and hateful in the conduct of their associates , stood firmly by the cause of Pub- lic Liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been ...
... conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men who , in spite of much that was ridiculous and hateful in the conduct of their associates , stood firmly by the cause of Pub- lic Liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been ...
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