Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the ...
... English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the ...
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... English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
... English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
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... English poet has never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies ...
... English poet has never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies ...
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... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the mi- racles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beauti- ful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge ...
... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the mi- racles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beauti- ful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge ...
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... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
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