Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... seem so cold and affected when applied to other modern writers , have a perfect propriety when applied to him . He was not an author , but a bard . His poetry seems not to have been an art , but an inspiration . Had he lived to the full ...
... seem so cold and affected when applied to other modern writers , have a perfect propriety when applied to him . He was not an author , but a bard . His poetry seems not to have been an art , but an inspiration . Had he lived to the full ...
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... seem to have been the worst vices of this depraved tinker . They would have passed for virtues with Archbishop Laud . It is quite clear that , from a very early age , Bunyan was a man of a strict life and of a tender conscience . " He ...
... seem to have been the worst vices of this depraved tinker . They would have passed for virtues with Archbishop Laud . It is quite clear that , from a very early age , Bunyan was a man of a strict life and of a tender conscience . " He ...
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... seem to have left behind them was an affectionate compassion for those who were still in the state in which he had once been . Religion has scarcely ever worn a form so calm and soothing as in his allegory . The feeling which pre ...
... seem to have left behind them was an affectionate compassion for those who were still in the state in which he had once been . Religion has scarcely ever worn a form so calm and soothing as in his allegory . The feeling which pre ...
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... seems , no important papers relating to the most illustrious proprietor of that ancient domain . The most valuable me- morials of him which still exist , belong to the family of his friend , Sir John Eliot . Lord Eliot has furnished the ...
... seems , no important papers relating to the most illustrious proprietor of that ancient domain . The most valuable me- morials of him which still exist , belong to the family of his friend , Sir John Eliot . Lord Eliot has furnished the ...
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... seems to indicate that he was one of the Norman favourites of the last Saxon king . During the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster , the Hampdens adhered to the party of the Red Rose , and were , consequently , perse- cuted ...
... seems to indicate that he was one of the Norman favourites of the last Saxon king . During the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster , the Hampdens adhered to the party of the Red Rose , and were , consequently , perse- cuted ...
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