Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed . They recognised no title to superiority but his favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the ...
... compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed . They recognised no title to superiority but his favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the ...
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... comparing them with the instruments which the despots of other countries are compelled to employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mount guard at their gates . Our royalist countrymen were not ...
... comparing them with the instruments which the despots of other countries are compelled to employ , with the mutes who throng their antechambers , and the Janissaries who mount guard at their gates . Our royalist countrymen were not ...
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... compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff , with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever ...
... compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff , with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever ...
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... compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a hundred pair of gladia- tors . Yet we should probably wrong such a Roman if we supposed that his disposition was 30 cruel as that of Mrs. Brownrigg . In our own country ...
... compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a hundred pair of gladia- tors . Yet we should probably wrong such a Roman if we supposed that his disposition was 30 cruel as that of Mrs. Brownrigg . In our own country ...
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... comparing the generation which follows them with that which preceded them . The first fruits which are reaped under a bad system often spring from seed sown under a good one . Thus it was , in some measure , with the Augustan age . Thus ...
... comparing the generation which follows them with that which preceded them . The first fruits which are reaped under a bad system often spring from seed sown under a good one . Thus it was , in some measure , with the Augustan age . Thus ...
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