Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 15
... Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all events , there can be no doubt that this vene- ration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was injurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his ...
... Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all events , there can be no doubt that this vene- ration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was injurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his ...
Page 118
... Queen , they say , was annulled by the Pope ; her throne was given to another ; her subjects were incited to rebellion ; her life was menaced ; every Catholic was bound in conscience to be a traitor ; it was therefore against traitors ...
... Queen , they say , was annulled by the Pope ; her throne was given to another ; her subjects were incited to rebellion ; her life was menaced ; every Catholic was bound in conscience to be a traitor ; it was therefore against traitors ...
Page 122
... Queen . We know through what strange loopholes the human mind contrives to escape , when it wishes to avoid a dis- agreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to be- lieve the Pope ...
... Queen . We know through what strange loopholes the human mind contrives to escape , when it wishes to avoid a dis- agreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to be- lieve the Pope ...
Page 123
... Queen , of her special grace , certain knowledge , and mere motion , sometimes ex- tended to very mitigated cases , he were allowed a fair time to choke before the hangman began to grabble in his entrails . But the laws passed against ...
... Queen , of her special grace , certain knowledge , and mere motion , sometimes ex- tended to very mitigated cases , he were allowed a fair time to choke before the hangman began to grabble in his entrails . But the laws passed against ...
Page 128
... Queen of Scotland had the better claim ; and that doubt would , in all probability , have produced a war both with Scotland and with France , if the project of Northumberland had not been blasted in its infancy . That Elizabeth had a ...
... Queen of Scotland had the better claim ; and that doubt would , in all probability , have produced a war both with Scotland and with France , if the project of Northumberland had not been blasted in its infancy . That Elizabeth had a ...
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