Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially ... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge ...
... measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially ... measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out , huge ...
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... measure under the con- trol of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
... measure under the con- trol of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an ...
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... and dart upon it with a ravenous delight . They cannot always prevent the advo- cates of a good measure from compassing their end ; but they feel , with their prototype , that " Their labours must be to pervert that end , MILTON . 35.
... and dart upon it with a ravenous delight . They cannot always prevent the advo- cates of a good measure from compassing their end ; but they feel , with their prototype , that " Their labours must be to pervert that end , MILTON . 35.
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... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it - the arbitrary Charles or the liberal William , Ferdinand the catholic or Frederick the protestant ! On such occasions their deadliest oppo- nents may reckon upon their candid ...
... measures . So that evil be done , they care not who does it - the arbitrary Charles or the liberal William , Ferdinand the catholic or Frederick the protestant ! On such occasions their deadliest oppo- nents may reckon upon their candid ...
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... measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years , the people had seen the rights , which were theirs by a double claim , by ...
... measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years , the people had seen the rights , which were theirs by a double claim , by ...
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