Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 8
... the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into con- vulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ¿ knife while he shouts his death - song . The 8 MILTON .
... the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into con- vulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ¿ knife while he shouts his death - song . The 8 MILTON .
Page 9
... death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exer- cised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who ...
... death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exer- cised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who ...
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... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of ...
... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of ...
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... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
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... deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power which they held only in trust , and to inflict upon England the curse of a Venetian oligarchy . But even when thus placed by violence at the head ...
... deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power which they held only in trust , and to inflict upon England the curse of a Venetian oligarchy . But even when thus placed by violence at the head ...
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