Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... tion , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever MILTON . 9.
... tion , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever MILTON . 9.
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... tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence , their sublimity , and their music . The ...
... tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence , their sublimity , and their music . The ...
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... tion . We confidently affirm , that every reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the ...
... tion . We confidently affirm , that every reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the ...
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... tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however re- stricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on ...
... tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however re- stricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on ...
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... tion . They content themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at ...
... tion . They content themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at ...
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