Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially ... measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge ...
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially ... measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge ...
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... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colouring 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 age ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colouring 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 age ...
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... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Fer- dinand 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 , Fer- dinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and re- nounced so many oppressive prerogatives , did the parlia- ment continue to rise in their ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and re- nounced so many oppressive prerogatives , did the parlia- ment continue to rise in their ...
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... measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the rights which were theirs by a double claim , by immemorial ...
... measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the rights which were theirs by a double claim , by immemorial ...
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