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... , which was written when the author was fresh from college , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and vi PREFACE . ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which ...
... , which was written when the author was fresh from college , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and vi PREFACE . ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which ...
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... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost with- out 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 opi ...
... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost with- out 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 opi ...
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... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the an- cient language , though much praised It is not our intention to attempt any by those who have never read them , thing like a complete examination of are wretched compositions ...
... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the an- cient language , though much praised It is not our intention to attempt any by those who have never read them , thing like a complete examination of are wretched compositions ...
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... scarcely any passages the poetry of Milton is the extreme re- in the poems of Milton are more ge- moteness of the associations by means nerally known or more frequently re- of which it acts on the reader . Its ef - peated than those ...
... scarcely any passages the poetry of Milton is the extreme re- in the poems of Milton are more ge- moteness of the associations by means nerally known or more frequently re- of which it acts on the reader . Its ef - peated than those ...
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... scarcely ever men- tioned except as an instance of the Milton attended in the Comus to the blindness of the parental affection distinction which he afterwards neg- which men of letters bear towards the lected in the Samson . He made his ...
... scarcely ever men- tioned except as an instance of the Milton attended in the Comus to the blindness of the parental affection distinction which he afterwards neg- which men of letters bear towards the lected in the Samson . He made his ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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