Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having ...
... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having ...
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... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer that no poet , who should ...
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer that no poet , who should ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the ...
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... strong within them . They were indeed misled , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and romantic honour , the prejudices of childhood , and the venerable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ; and ...
... strong within them . They were indeed misled , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and romantic honour , the prejudices of childhood , and the venerable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ; and ...
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... strong fetters fix'd and motionless . ' To reverse the rod , to spell the charm backward , to break the ties which bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
... strong fetters fix'd and motionless . ' To reverse the rod , to spell the charm backward , to break the ties which bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
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