Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed ...
... person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed ...
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... person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing ...
... person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing ...
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... person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too ...
... person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too ...
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... person who has acquired more knowledge of the history of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment believe that , if James had held his own religious opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to ...
... person who has acquired more knowledge of the history of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment believe that , if James had held his own religious opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and ...
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