Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... called , 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 on the ...
... called , 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 on the ...
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... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
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... called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro ...
... called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro ...
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... called partisans . We would speak first of the Puritans , the most re- markable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read ...
... called partisans . We would speak first of the Puritans , the most re- markable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read ...
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... called upon Cromwell to break the secular chain , and to save free conscience from the paw of the Presbyterian wolf . With a view to the same great object , he attacked the licensing system , in that sublime treatise which every ...
... called upon Cromwell to break the secular chain , and to save free conscience from the paw of the Presbyterian wolf . With a view to the same great object , he attacked the licensing system , in that sublime treatise which every ...
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