Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... doubt can exist that it is a genuine relic of the great poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his ...
... doubt can exist that it is a genuine relic of the great poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his ...
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... doubt that this veneration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was injurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all ...
... doubt that this veneration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was injurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all ...
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... doubts of the Academy , and the pride of the Portico , and the faces of the Lictor , and the swords of thirty legions , were humbled in the dust . Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph , the principle which had assisted it ...
... doubts of the Academy , and the pride of the Portico , and the faces of the Lictor , and the swords of thirty legions , were humbled in the dust . Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph , the principle which had assisted it ...
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... doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate in ambition and in love . He had survived his health and his sight ...
... doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate in ambition and in love . He had survived his health and his sight ...
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... doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the se- curity that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no ...
... doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the se- curity that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no ...
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