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... the diction of our academical Pharisees . He does not attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements .
... the diction of our academical Pharisees . He does not attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements .
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We have seen , in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
We have seen , in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
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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 to Milton , " the tragical part , if the lyrical ...
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 to Milton , " the tragical part , if the lyrical ...
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He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second death ; who has read the dusky charac- ters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the ...
He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second death ; who has read the dusky charac- ters on the portal , within which there is no hope ; who has hidden his face from the terrors of the ...
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Milton has been often censured for ascribing to spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned ... What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with which we are best acquainted ?
Milton has been often censured for ascribing to spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned ... What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with which we are best acquainted ?
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