Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 48
... hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 , who shouted with equal glee when Cromwell was inaugurated in Westminster Hall , and when he was dug up to be hanged at Tyburn , who dined on calves ' heads , or stuck up oak ...
... hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 , who shouted with equal glee when Cromwell was inaugurated in Westminster Hall , and when he was dug up to be hanged at Tyburn , who dined on calves ' heads , or stuck up oak ...
Page 51
... hands . their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away . On the rich and the eloquent , on nobles and ... hand . The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged , on whose ...
... hands . their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away . On the rich and the eloquent , on nobles and ... hand . The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged , on whose ...
Page 56
... hand is firm . He does nought in hate , but all in honour . He kisses the beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . That from which the public character of Milton derives its great and peculiar splendour still remains to be mentioned ...
... hand is firm . He does nought in hate , but all in honour . He kisses the beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . That from which the public character of Milton derives its great and peculiar splendour still remains to be mentioned ...
Page 58
... hand and as frontlets between his eyes . His attacks were , in general , directed less against particular abuses than against those deeply - seated errors on which almost all abuses are founded , the servile worship of eminent men and ...
... hand and as frontlets between his eyes . His attacks were , in general , directed less against particular abuses than against those deeply - seated errors on which almost all abuses are founded , the servile worship of eminent men and ...
Page 71
... hands , pouring forth , in spontaneous abundance , every thing brilliant , or fragrant , or nourishing . A new language , character- ised by simple sweetness and simple energy , had attained perfection . No tongue ever furnished more ...
... hands , pouring forth , in spontaneous abundance , every thing brilliant , or fragrant , or nourishing . A new language , character- ised by simple sweetness and simple energy , had attained perfection . No tongue ever furnished more ...
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