Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... still something to add , to alter , or to reject . Every genera- tion enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity , and transmits that hoard , augmented by fresh acquisitions , to future ages . In these B 3 MILTON . 5.
... still something to add , to alter , or to reject . Every genera- tion enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity , and transmits that hoard , augmented by fresh acquisitions , to future ages . In these B 3 MILTON . 5.
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... tion which the general suffrage of critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be com- pared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some ...
... tion which the general suffrage of critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be com- pared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some ...
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... tion of spirit with which we are best acquainted ? We observe certain phænomena . We cannot explain them into material causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea ...
... tion of spirit with which we are best acquainted ? We observe certain phænomena . We cannot explain them into material causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea ...
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... tion , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided in- ferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly ...
... tion , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided in- ferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly ...
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... tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and de- ceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel . We cannot refrain from adding a few words ...
... tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and de- ceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel . We cannot refrain from adding a few words ...
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