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Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes . Milton , it is well known , admired Euripides highly ; much more highly than , in our opinion ...
Instead of correcting what was bad , he destroyed what was excellent . He substituted crutches for stilts , bad sermons for good odes . Milton , it is well known , admired Euripides highly ; much more highly than , in our opinion ...
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... impose a constraint upon the writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter ...
... impose a constraint upon the writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter ...
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That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to the Paradise Lost , we must readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Paradise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided , than the ...
That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to the Paradise Lost , we must readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Paradise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided , than the ...
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We do not , we repeat , approve of the execution of Charles ; not because the constitution exempts the king from responsibility , for we know that all such maxims , how- ever excellent , have their exceptions ; nor because we feel any ...
We do not , we repeat , approve of the execution of Charles ; not because the constitution exempts the king from responsibility , for we know that all such maxims , how- ever excellent , have their exceptions ; nor because we feel any ...
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The institutions which he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions .
The institutions which he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions .
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