Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... written by Milton , while he filled the office of Secretary , and several papers relating to the Popish trials and the Rye - house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination ...
... written by Milton , while he filled the office of Secretary , and several papers relating to the Popish trials and the Rye - house Plot . The whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination ...
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... written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and . Cambridge . There is no elaborate imitation of classical antiquity , no scrupulous purity , none of the ceremonial cleanness which characterizes the diction ...
... written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and . Cambridge . There is no elaborate imitation of classical antiquity , no scrupulous purity , none of the ceremonial cleanness which characterizes the diction ...
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... written a book on the motives of human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It ... writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which ...
... written a book on the motives of human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It ... writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which ...
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... written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is ...
... written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is ...
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... written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character ... writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry ...
... written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character ... writing , we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous . But if we forget the characters , and think only of the poetry ...
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