Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the 2 MILTON .
... mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the 2 MILTON .
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... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
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... truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction . He who , in an enlightened and literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of ...
... truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction . He who , in an enlightened and literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of ...
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... truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who ...
... truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who ...
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... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage . But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence ...
... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage . But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence ...
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