Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... hands of all , to say something of his moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to ...
... hands of all , to say something of his moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to ...
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... hand ; and our version , 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 ...
... hand ; and our version , 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 ...
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... hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without ...
... hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without ...
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... hands . We know that a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to ...
... hands . We know that a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to ...
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... selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 , who shouted with equal glee when Cromwell was inau- gurated in 48 MILTON .
... selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 , who shouted with equal glee when Cromwell was inau- gurated in 48 MILTON .
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