Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and reverence , the genius and vir- tues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the ...
... present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and reverence , the genius and vir- tues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the ...
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... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole ...
... present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole ...
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... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so dis- posed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . has heard the tormented spirits crying | must ...
... present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so dis- posed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . has heard the tormented spirits crying | must ...
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... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ...
... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ...
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... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are ...
... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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