Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 15
... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
Page 27
... taken away from the evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers ...
... taken away from the evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers ...
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... taken away the key of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind sub- mission . It is the character of such revolutions that we always see the worst of them at first . Till men ...
... taken away the key of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind sub- mission . It is the character of such revolutions that we always see the worst of them at first . Till men ...
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... taken into consideration , we do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave , a wise , an honest , and an useful body . The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty mainly because it was the cause of religion . There was another party ...
... taken into consideration , we do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave , a wise , an honest , and an useful body . The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty mainly because it was the cause of religion . There was another party ...
Page 77
... taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character . Men grew old in camps , and acquired the ...
... taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character . Men grew old in camps , and acquired the ...
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