Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... feelings . Prometheus , however , is hardly superhuman enough . He talks too much of his chains and his uneasy posture . He is rather too much de- pressed and agitated . His resolution seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses ...
... feelings . Prometheus , however , is hardly superhuman enough . He talks too much of his chains and his uneasy posture . He is rather too much de- pressed and agitated . His resolution seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses ...
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... feeling . X In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no ...
... feeling . X In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no ...
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... feelings of the poet ; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been . A victory , an expected attack upon the city , a momentary fit of depression or exultation , a jest thrown out against one of his books , a ...
... feelings of the poet ; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been . A victory , an expected attack upon the city , a momentary fit of depression or exultation , a jest thrown out against one of his books , a ...
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... of the people , also , contemplated that proceeding with feelings which , however unreasonable , no government could safely venture to outrage . But , though we think the conduct of the regicides 44 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... of the people , also , contemplated that proceeding with feelings which , however unreasonable , no government could safely venture to outrage . But , though we think the conduct of the regicides 44 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... feeling , which would have restrained us from committing the act , would nave led us , after it had been committed , to defend it against the ravings of servility and superstition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the ...
... feeling , which would have restrained us from committing the act , would nave led us , after it had been committed , to defend it against the ravings of servility and superstition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the ...
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