Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 15
... carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes ...
... carry the reform further . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes ...
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... carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers , with just sufficient talent to clothe the ...
... carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers , with just sufficient talent to clothe the ...
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... carried and the breach entered . He pressed into the forlorn hope . At the beginning of the changes , he wrote with incomparable energy and eloquence against the bishops . But , when his opinion seemed likely to prevail , he passed on ...
... carried and the breach entered . He pressed into the forlorn hope . At the beginning of the changes , he wrote with incomparable energy and eloquence against the bishops . But , when his opinion seemed likely to prevail , he passed on ...
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... carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only contempt in the immediate neighbourhood of the Vatican . Alexander , when he commanded our Henry the Second to submit to the lash before the tomb of a ...
... carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only contempt in the immediate neighbourhood of the Vatican . Alexander , when he commanded our Henry the Second to submit to the lash before the tomb of a ...
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... carrying back the silks of Bengal and the furs of Siberia to the palaces of Milan . With peculiar pleasure , every cul- tivated mind must repose on the fair , the happy , the glorious Florence , the halls which rang with the mirth of ...
... carrying back the silks of Bengal and the furs of Siberia to the palaces of Milan . With peculiar pleasure , every cul- tivated mind must repose on the fair , the happy , the glorious Florence , the halls which rang with the mirth of ...
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