Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the ...
... Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the ...
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... Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thou- sand years , and which , from one end of Europe to the other , have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed , and loosed the knees of the 30 MILTON .
... Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thou- sand years , and which , from one end of Europe to the other , have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed , and loosed the knees of the 30 MILTON .
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... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth , were no vulgar ...
... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth , were no vulgar ...
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... Europe , the traces of ancient civilisation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer . The dawn began to reappear be- fore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
... Europe , the traces of ancient civilisation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer . The dawn began to reappear be- fore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon . It was in ...
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... Europe , a large and powerful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the government . But , in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took ...
... Europe , a large and powerful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the government . But , in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took ...
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