Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Pagina 3
... 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 ...
Pagina 7
... person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing 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 any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing ...
Pagina 27
... . the portraits of him are singularly characteristic . No person can look on the features , noble even to rug- gedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard All and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and MILTON . 27.
... . the portraits of him are singularly characteristic . No person can look on the features , noble even to rug- gedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard All and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and MILTON . 27.
Pagina 34
... persons who , in this country , never omit an op- portunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting ... person who has acquired more knowledge of the his- tory of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment ...
... persons who , in this country , never omit an op- portunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting ... person who has acquired more knowledge of the his- tory of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment ...
Pagina 35
... 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 to the con- fessions of the King himself ...
... 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 to the con- fessions of the King himself ...
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