Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 41
... Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of private virtues ? And what , after all , are the virtues ascribed to Charles ? A religious zeal , not more sincere than that of his son , and fully as weak and ...
... Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of private virtues ? And what , after all , are the virtues ascribed to Charles ? A religious zeal , not more sincere than that of his son , and fully as weak and ...
Page 48
... it when it was done . If anything more were wanting to the justification of Milton , the book of Salmasius would furnish it . That miserable MILTON AND CROMWELL 49 performance is now with justice considered 48 MILTON.
... it when it was done . If anything more were wanting to the justification of Milton , the book of Salmasius would furnish it . That miserable MILTON AND CROMWELL 49 performance is now with justice considered 48 MILTON.
Page 49
Thomas Babington Macaulay. MILTON AND CROMWELL 49 performance is now with justice considered only as a beacon to word - catchers , who wish to become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the Æneæ magni dextra , ' gives ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. MILTON AND CROMWELL 49 performance is now with justice considered only as a beacon to word - catchers , who wish to become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the Æneæ magni dextra , ' gives ...
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... Cromwell were at first honest , though we believe that he was driven from the noble course which he had marked out ... Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt CROMWELL AND HIS WORK 51 who fairly compares the ...
... Cromwell were at first honest , though we believe that he was driven from the noble course which he had marked out ... Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt CROMWELL AND HIS WORK 51 who fairly compares the ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. CROMWELL AND HIS WORK 51 who fairly compares the events of the Protectorate with those of the thirty years which succeeded it , the darkest and most disgraceful in the English annals . Cromwell was evidently ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. CROMWELL AND HIS WORK 51 who fairly compares the events of the Protectorate with those of the thirty years which succeeded it , the darkest and most disgraceful in the English annals . Cromwell was evidently ...
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