Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and ...
... house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and ...
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... house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the ...
... house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the ...
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... , however rude , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Male- bolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , C 2 MILTON . 19.
... , however rude , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Male- bolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , C 2 MILTON . 19.
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... house or a good govern- ment in the world . Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some mysterious law ... houses with wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the ...
... house or a good govern- ment in the world . Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some mysterious law ... houses with wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the ...
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... 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 of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth ...
... 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 of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth ...
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