Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... JOHN MILTON , trans- lated from the Original by Charles R. Sumner , M. A. & c . & c . 1825 . TOWARDS the close of the year 1823 , Mr. Lemon , deputy keeper of the state papers , in the course of his researches among the presses of his ...
... JOHN MILTON , trans- lated from the Original by Charles R. Sumner , M. A. & c . & c . 1825 . TOWARDS the close of the year 1823 , Mr. Lemon , deputy keeper of the state papers , in the course of his researches among the presses of his ...
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... John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . art . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish ...
... John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . art . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish ...
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... John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hun- dred thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the ...
... John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hun- dred thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the ...
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... John , or the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . It was not surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses ...
... John , or the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . It was not surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses ...
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... John what soda water is to champagne . It has the effervescence though not the body or the flavour . Slender and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are fools , troubled with an uneasy consciousness of their folly , which , in the latter , produces ...
... John what soda water is to champagne . It has the effervescence though not the body or the flavour . Slender and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are fools , troubled with an uneasy consciousness of their folly , which , in the latter , produces ...
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