Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and ...
... house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and ...
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... house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the ...
... house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the ...
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... house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurrying from couch to couch ...
... house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurrying from couch to couch ...
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... Houses to William and Mary , which Charles is not acknowledged to have violated . He had , according to the testimony of his own friends , usurped the functions of the legislature , raised taxes without the consent of parliament , and ...
... Houses to William and Mary , which Charles is not acknowledged to have violated . He had , according to the testimony of his own friends , usurped the functions of the legislature , raised taxes without the consent of parliament , and ...
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... house- hold decencies which half the tomb - stones in England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of perse- cution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him ...
... house- hold decencies which half the tomb - stones in England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of perse- cution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him ...
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