Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
... measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
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... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and espe- cially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , busi- 3 ness - like manner ; not for the sake of 18 MILTON .
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and espe- cially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , busi- 3 ness - like manner ; not for the sake of 18 MILTON .
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... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the ...
... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the ...
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... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
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... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their ...
... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their ...
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