Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... 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 been assigned among the greatest masters of the art . His ...
... 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 been assigned among the greatest masters of the art . His ...
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... liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he rises even above himself . Then , like his own good Genius bursting from the earthly form and weeds of Thyrsis , he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems ...
... liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he rises even above himself . Then , like his own good Genius bursting from the earthly form and weeds of Thyrsis , he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems ...
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... liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were ...
... liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were ...
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... liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin ...
... liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin ...
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... liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing with them . One sect there was , which , from unfortunate temporary causes , it was thought necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily ...
... liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing with them . One sect there was , which , from unfortunate temporary causes , it was thought necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily ...
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