Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... heads The unarmed youth of heaven . Celestial armoury , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without ...
... heads The unarmed youth of heaven . Celestial armoury , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without ...
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... head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and ...
... head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and ...
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... heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The government had pro- hibited free discussion : it had done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The retribution was just ...
... heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The government had pro- hibited free discussion : it had done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The retribution was just ...
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... head of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . He gave the country a constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise ...
... head of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . He gave the country a constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise ...
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... head to the nations . Į Most of the remarks which we have hitherto made on the public character of Milton , apply to him only as one of a large body . We shall proceed to notice . some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from ...
... head to the nations . Į Most of the remarks which we have hitherto made on the public character of Milton , apply to him only as one of a large body . We shall proceed to notice . some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from ...
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