Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
... measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
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... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from ...
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from ...
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... 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 of Jove , or to the sea - monster which 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 of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the ...
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... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of poetical colour- ing can produce no illusion , when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be in- congruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
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... measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many re- forms , and renounced so many oppressive preroga- tives , did the parliament continue to rise in their demands at the risk of provoking a civil war ? The ship - money had been ...
... measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many re- forms , and renounced so many oppressive preroga- tives , did the parliament continue to rise in their demands at the risk of provoking a civil war ? The ship - money had been ...
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