Critical and Historical EssaysLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874 - 855 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... doubt that this veneration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was in- jurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out pro- fusely ...
... doubt that this veneration for the Athenian , whether just or not , was in- jurious to the Samson Agonistes . Had Milton taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out pro- fusely ...
Pagina 13
... doubt that they poor , sightless and disgraced , he re- belong to a man too proud and too tired to his hovel to die . sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate ...
... doubt that they poor , sightless and disgraced , he re- belong to a man too proud and too tired to his hovel to die . sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate ...
Pagina 17
... doubt passed salu- tary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive preroga- tives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no ...
... doubt passed salu- tary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive preroga- tives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no ...
Pagina 18
... doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the ac- quisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of ...
... doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the ac- quisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of ...
Pagina 21
... doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first ...
... doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first ...
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