Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 16
... turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney- sweeper on May - Day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold , not only dazzling to the sight , but capable of standing the ...
... turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney- sweeper on May - Day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold , not only dazzling to the sight , but capable of standing the ...
Page 22
... turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity em- bodied in a human form , walking among men , par- taking of their infirmities , leaning on their bosoms , weeping over their graves ...
... turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity em- bodied in a human form , walking among men , par- taking of their infirmities , leaning on their bosoms , weeping over their graves ...
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... turned every consolation and every pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the ...
... turned every consolation and every pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the ...
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... turned him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by im- perious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his adherents , and attainted his ...
... turned him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by im- perious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his adherents , and attainted his ...
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... turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had van- quished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He therefore joined the Independents , and called upon Cromwell to break the ...
... turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had van- quished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He therefore joined the Independents , and called upon Cromwell to break the ...
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