Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and . Cambridge . There is no elaborate ... Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone 2 MILTON .
... Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and . Cambridge . There is no elaborate ... Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone 2 MILTON .
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In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ... MILTON . 3.
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ... MILTON . 3.
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... Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of 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 ...
... Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of 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 ...
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... intellectual powers , speedily surpass them in actual attainments . Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on Political Economy could teach Montague or Walpole many lessons in finance . Any intelligent man may MILTON . 5.
... intellectual powers , speedily surpass them in actual attainments . Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on Political Economy could teach Montague or Walpole many lessons in finance . Any intelligent man may MILTON . 5.
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... on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his 6 MILTON .
... on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his 6 MILTON .
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