Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 8
... death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici ...
... death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici ...
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... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of Valdi ...
... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of Valdi ...
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... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
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... death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to ...
... death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to ...
Page 49
... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden chest which con- ceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a pecu- liar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal ...
... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden chest which con- ceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a pecu- liar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal ...
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