Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 21
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from ...
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from ...
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... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the ...
... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the ...
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... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
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... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their ...
... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their ...
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... measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and renounced so many oppressive preroga- tives , did the Parliament continue to rise in their demands at the risk of provoking a civil war ? The ship - money had been ...
... measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and renounced so many oppressive preroga- tives , did the Parliament continue to rise in their demands at the risk of provoking a civil war ? The ship - money had been ...
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