Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
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... English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern language has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their ...
... English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern language has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their ...
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... English poet has never thought to taking the measure of Sa- tan . 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 ...
... English poet has never thought to taking the measure of Sa- tan . 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 ...
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... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery . " Nooks and dells , beautiful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge of ...
... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery . " Nooks and dells , beautiful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge of ...
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... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interest- ing . But they are ...
... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interest- ing . But they are ...
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