Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... standing the severest test of the crucible . Milton attended in the Comus to the distinction which he afterwards neglected in the Samson . He made his Masque what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , and dramatic only in semblance ...
... standing the severest test of the crucible . Milton attended in the Comus to the distinction which he afterwards neglected in the Samson . He made his Masque what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , and dramatic only in semblance ...
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... stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to ...
... stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to ...
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... stand simply for what they are . Those of Milton have a signification which is often discernible only to the ini ... stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : 18 MILTON .
... stand simply for what they are . Those of Milton have a signification which is often discernible only to the ini ... stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : 18 MILTON .
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In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. guardian angels , he stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His ...
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. guardian angels , he stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His ...
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... stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial suc- cess . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be ...
... stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial suc- cess . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be ...
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