Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... present generation . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
... present generation . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
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... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and reverence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the ...
... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and reverence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the ...
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... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole ...
... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole ...
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... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But ...
... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But ...
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... and that of James . The principles of the Revolution have often been grossly misrepresented , and never more than in the course of the present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold 32 MILTON .
... and that of James . The principles of the Revolution have often been grossly misrepresented , and never more than in the course of the present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold 32 MILTON .
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