Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... 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 been assigned among the greatest masters of the art . His ...
... 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 been assigned among the greatest masters of the art . His ...
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... liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he rises even above himself . Then , like his own good Genius bursting from the earthly form and weeds of Thyrsis , he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems ...
... liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he rises even above himself . Then , like his own good Genius bursting from the earthly form and weeds of Thyrsis , he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems ...
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... liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single gene- ration , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then ...
... liberty and despotism , reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single gene- ration , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then ...
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... liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin ...
... liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were the conquerors , their enemies were the painters . As a body , the Roundheads had done their utmost to decry and ruin ...
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... liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dexterity of an advo- cate , while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of Milton must be approved or con- demned ...
... liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dexterity of an advo- cate , while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of Milton must be approved or con- demned ...
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