Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... opinions he still widely dissents , but to whose talents and virtues he admits that he formerly did not do justice . Serious as are the faults of the Essay on Government , a critic , while noticing those faults , should have abstained ...
... opinions he still widely dissents , but to whose talents and virtues he admits that he formerly did not do justice . Serious as are the faults of the Essay on Government , a critic , while noticing those faults , should have abstained ...
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... . Skinner , it is well known , held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend . It is therefore probable , as Mr. Lemon conjectures , that he VOL . I. B may have fallen under the suspicions of the govern- ment.
... . Skinner , it is well known , held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend . It is therefore probable , as Mr. Lemon conjectures , that he VOL . I. B may have fallen under the suspicions of the govern- ment.
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... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's \ poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
... opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's \ poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of Fairy - land kissing the long ears of Bottom . At all ...
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... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by con- trasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
... opinion respecting our own great poet , than by con- trasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture- writing of Mexico . The ...
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... 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 age of philosophers and theologians ...
... 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 age of philosophers and theologians ...
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