Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or ...
... observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or ...
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... . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls 12 MILTON .
... . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls 12 MILTON .
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... observations , the affected delicacy about names , the official documents transcribed at full length , and all the ... observe certain phænomena . We cannot explain them into material causes . We therefore infer that there exists ...
... observations , the affected delicacy about names , the official documents transcribed at full length , and all the ... observe certain phænomena . We cannot explain them into material causes . We therefore infer that there exists ...
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... fault inseparable from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already observed , rendered the utmost ac- curacy of description necessary . Still it is a fault . The supernatural agents excite an interest ; but it is 24 MILTON .
... fault inseparable from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already observed , rendered the utmost ac- curacy of description necessary . Still it is a fault . The supernatural agents excite an interest ; but it is 24 MILTON .
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... observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such consider- ations as these , together with his Vandyke dress , his handsome face , and his peaked beard , that he ...
... observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such consider- ations as these , together with his Vandyke dress , his handsome face , and his peaked beard , that he ...
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