Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays . In this respect the genius of Bunyan bore a great resemblance to that of a man who had very little else in common with him , Percy Bysshe Shelley . The strong imagination ...
... effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays . In this respect the genius of Bunyan bore a great resemblance to that of a man who had very little else in common with him , Percy Bysshe Shelley . The strong imagination ...
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... effect which the Tale produces on all persons , learned and unlearned , proves that he has done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are those in which he altogether drops the allegory , and puts into the mouth of ...
... effect which the Tale produces on all persons , learned and unlearned , proves that he has done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are those in which he altogether drops the allegory , and puts into the mouth of ...
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... effect , though he was not sagacious enough to trace it to its cause . " En le royaume d'Angleterre , " says he , " toutes gens , laboureurs et marchands , ont appris de . vivre en paix , et à mener leurs marchandises paisiblement , et ...
... effect , though he was not sagacious enough to trace it to its cause . " En le royaume d'Angleterre , " says he , " toutes gens , laboureurs et marchands , ont appris de . vivre en paix , et à mener leurs marchandises paisiblement , et ...
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... effect of the Reformation in England was by no means favourable to political liberty . The authority which had been exercised by the Popes was transferred almost entire to the King . Two formidable powers which had often served to check ...
... effect of the Reformation in England was by no means favourable to political liberty . The authority which had been exercised by the Popes was transferred almost entire to the King . Two formidable powers which had often served to check ...
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... effect , however , was to make James and his office objects of contempt , and to dissolve those associations which had been created by the noble bearing of preceding monarchs , and which were in them- selves no inconsiderable fence to ...
... effect , however , was to make James and his office objects of contempt , and to dissolve those associations which had been created by the noble bearing of preceding monarchs , and which were in them- selves no inconsiderable fence to ...
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