Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 19
... battle against the guardian angels , he stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has de- scribed the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as ...
... battle against the guardian angels , he stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has de- scribed the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as ...
Page 30
... battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since ...
... battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since ...
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... battle , and often join to exterminate it after a defeat . England , at the time of which we are treating , abounded with fickle and selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the ...
... battle , and often join to exterminate it after a defeat . England , at the time of which we are treating , abounded with fickle and selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the ...
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... battle . These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a cool- ness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the neces- sary ...
... battle . These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a cool- ness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the neces- sary ...
Page 54
... judices of childhood , and the venerable names of his- tory , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ; and , like the Red - Cross Knight , they thought that they were doing battle for an injured beauty , while they 54 MILTON .
... judices of childhood , and the venerable names of his- tory , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ; and , like the Red - Cross Knight , they thought that they were doing battle for an injured beauty , while they 54 MILTON .
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