Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... written by Milton , while he filled the office of Secretary , and several papers relating to the Popish trials and the Rye - house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination ...
... written by Milton , while he filled the office of Secretary , and several papers relating to the Popish trials and the Rye - house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination ...
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... written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and Cambridge . There is no elaborate imitation of classical antiquity , no scrupulous purity , none of the ceremonial cleanness which characterizes the diction of ...
... written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and Cambridge . There is no elaborate imitation of classical antiquity , no scrupulous purity , none of the ceremonial cleanness which characterizes the diction of ...
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... than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his Niobe , or the blushes of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book 6 MILTON .
... than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his Niobe , or the blushes of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book 6 MILTON .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions , it is ... writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions , it is ... writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which ...
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... written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is ...
... written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is ...
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