Critical Historical and Miscellaneous Essays with a Memoir and Index, المجلدات 1-2Mason, Baker & Pratt, 1873 |
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... half the year , be at leis- are for other pursuits to which I am more inclined , and for which I am perhaps better fitted ; and I should be 66 able to complete an extensive literary work which I BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxi.
... half the year , be at leis- are for other pursuits to which I am more inclined , and for which I am perhaps better fitted ; and I should be 66 able to complete an extensive literary work which I BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxi.
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... better than poison , and intreated permission to resign the office of deciding between such detestable potions . “ In the name of Belus , how can this have hap- pened ? " said the king . Merolchazzar , the high - priest , muttered ...
... better than poison , and intreated permission to resign the office of deciding between such detestable potions . “ In the name of Belus , how can this have hap- pened ? " said the king . Merolchazzar , the high - priest , muttered ...
الصفحة 40
... better ; I should say , so much the worse . That cursed Sicilian expedition ! And you were one of the young fools1 who stood clapping and shouting while he was gulling the rabble , and who drowned poor Nicias's voice with your uproar ...
... better ; I should say , so much the worse . That cursed Sicilian expedition ! And you were one of the young fools1 who stood clapping and shouting while he was gulling the rabble , and who drowned poor Nicias's voice with your uproar ...
الصفحة 68
... better than grotesque , where Milton has since taught us to expect sublimity . " It is true that Dante has never shrunk from embodying his conceptions in determinate words , that he has even given measures and numbers , where Milton ...
... better than grotesque , where Milton has since taught us to expect sublimity . " It is true that Dante has never shrunk from embodying his conceptions in determinate words , that he has even given measures and numbers , where Milton ...
الصفحة 73
... better fitted for the education of a poet than the dusky streets of a huge capital . In- deed who is not tired to death with pure description of 1 Inferno , canto i . scenery ? Is it not the fact , that external CRITICISMS ON THE ...
... better fitted for the education of a poet than the dusky streets of a huge capital . In- deed who is not tired to death with pure description of 1 Inferno , canto i . scenery ? Is it not the fact , that external CRITICISMS ON THE ...
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