Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule 4 MILTON .
... unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule 4 MILTON .
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... thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot ...
... thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot ...
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... thought to taking the measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
... thought to taking the measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
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... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
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... thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts ? What if the contrary opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for ...
... thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts ? What if the contrary opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for ...
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