Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... intellect . Hence of all people children are the most imaginative . They abandon themselves without reserve to every illusion . Every image which is strongly presented to their mental eye produces on them the effect of reality . No man ...
... intellect . Hence of all people children are the most imaginative . They abandon themselves without reserve to every illusion . Every image which is strongly presented to their mental eye produces on them the effect of reality . No man ...
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... intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excel- lent as it is , to the Paradise Lost , we readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Paradise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided ...
... intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excel- lent as it is , to the Paradise Lost , we readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Paradise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided ...
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... intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes and Arimanes , liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle ...
... intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes and Arimanes , liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle ...
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... intellect than that propensity which , for want of a better name , we will venture to christen Boswellism . But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests , which have been tried in the ...
... intellect than that propensity which , for want of a better name , we will venture to christen Boswellism . But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests , which have been tried in the ...
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... intellect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old cultivation , but yielding neither flowers nor fruit . The deluge of barbarism came . It swept away all the landmarks ...
... intellect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old cultivation , but yielding neither flowers nor fruit . The deluge of barbarism came . It swept away all the landmarks ...
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