Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... until they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to 1 * MILTON . 3.
... until they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to 1 * MILTON . 3.
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In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. blood . On the same principle , we intend to take advantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while this memorial of a great and good man is still in the hands of all , to say something ...
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. blood . On the same principle , we intend to take advantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while this memorial of a great and good man is still in the hands of all , to say something ...
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... principles of dramatic writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry , we shall admit that it has never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made ...
... principles of dramatic writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry , we shall admit that it has never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made ...
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... principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore pro- duced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and ...
... principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore pro- duced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of Gods and ...
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... principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it . It became a new Paganism . Patron saints assumed the offices of household gods . St. George took the place of Mars . St. Elmo consoled the mariner for the loss of Castor and Pollux ...
... principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it . It became a new Paganism . Patron saints assumed the offices of household gods . St. George took the place of Mars . St. Elmo consoled the mariner for the loss of Castor and Pollux ...
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