Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA 5 of a native , not from 4 MILTON.
... gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA 5 of a native , not from 4 MILTON.
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... least successful performances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us ...
... least successful performances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us ...
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... and pathetic solemnity of the opening speech , or the wild and barbaric melody which gives so striking an effect to the choral passages . But we think it , COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES 19 we confess , the least 18 MILTON.
... and pathetic solemnity of the opening speech , or the wild and barbaric melody which gives so striking an effect to the choral passages . But we think it , COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES 19 we confess , the least 18 MILTON.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES 19 we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES 19 we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek ...
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... least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works in our language , that of Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not ...
... least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works in our language , that of Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not ...
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