Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... written when the author was fresh from College , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his matured ... writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , viii PREFACE .
... written when the author was fresh from College , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his matured ... writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , viii PREFACE .
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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 imi- tation 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 imi- tation 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 compositions which , on ...
... 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 compositions which , on ...
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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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