Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the ...
... English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the ...
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... English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
... English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
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... English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern lan- guage has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their ...
... English tongue , and to which every ancient and every modern lan- guage has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their ...
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... English poet has never thought of taking the measure of Satan . 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 ...
... English poet has never thought of taking the measure of Satan . 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 ...
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... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the mi- racles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beauti- ful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge ...
... English fireside . His poetry reminds us of the mi- racles of Alpine scenery . Nooks and dells , beauti- ful as fairy land , are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge ...
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