Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the ...
... Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the ...
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... Europe to the other , have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed , and loosed the knees of the oppressors with an unwonted fear , Of those principles , then struggling for their in- fant 30 MILTON .
... Europe to the other , have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed , and loosed the knees of the oppressors with an unwonted fear , Of those principles , then struggling for their in- fant 30 MILTON .
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... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of do- mestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of VOL . I. E England terrible to every nation on the face of the MILTON . 49.
... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of do- mestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of VOL . I. E England terrible to every nation on the face of the MILTON . 49.
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... Europe , the traces of ancient civili- sation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer . The dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
... Europe , the traces of ancient civili- sation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer . The dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
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... Europe , a large and power- ful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the government . But , in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to compara- tive insignificance . In some districts they ...
... Europe , a large and power- ful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the government . But , in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to compara- tive insignificance . In some districts they ...
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