Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton ...
... whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton ...
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... whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his ...
... whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his ...
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... whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable ...
... whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has long been agreed as to the merit of the most remarkable ...
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... whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the ...
... whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the ...
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... whole in ambi- guity . He has doubtless , by so doing , laid himself open to the charge of inconsistency . But though philosophically in the wrong , we cannot but believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost ...
... whole in ambi- guity . He has doubtless , by so doing , laid himself open to the charge of inconsistency . But though philosophically in the wrong , we cannot but believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost ...
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