Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... seems to have excited considerable amazement , par- ticularly his Arianism , and his theory on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ...
... seems to have excited considerable amazement , par- ticularly his Arianism , and his theory on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ...
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... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
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... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual ...
... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual ...
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... seems , no doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at ...
... seems , no doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at ...
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... seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some concealed meaning , more ...
... seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some concealed meaning , more ...
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