Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... hands of all , to say something of his moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to ...
... hands of all , to say something of his moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to ...
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... hand ; and our version , however rude , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome ...
... hand ; and our version , however rude , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome ...
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... hands have grasped the shaggy sides of Lucifer . His own feet have climbed the mountain of expiation . His own brow has been marked by the purifying angel . The reader would throw aside such a tale in incredulous disgust , unless it ...
... hands have grasped the shaggy sides of Lucifer . His own feet have climbed the mountain of expiation . His own brow has been marked by the purifying angel . The reader would throw aside such a tale in incredulous disgust , unless it ...
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... depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his MILTON . 25.
... depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his MILTON . 25.
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... hands . We know that a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to ...
... hands . We know that a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to ...
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