Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Men, and Revolutions, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1836 - English literature |
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... grave as a prose - writer ; Glory long since said to him as a poet , " Arise ! " and he did arise , and never will he lie down again . The liberty of the press ought to deem it a high honour to have for its patron the author of ...
... grave as a prose - writer ; Glory long since said to him as a poet , " Arise ! " and he did arise , and never will he lie down again . The liberty of the press ought to deem it a high honour to have for its patron the author of ...
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... All these master - pieces of modern Latinity would excite a smile in the scholars of Rome , if they were to rise from their graves . Milton first tells Salmasius , that he , Salmasius , 45 Defence of the English People against Salmasius.
... All these master - pieces of modern Latinity would excite a smile in the scholars of Rome , if they were to rise from their graves . Milton first tells Salmasius , that he , Salmasius , 45 Defence of the English People against Salmasius.
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... mankind died ; and yet for nine centuries he saw his sons travelling towards the grave , of which he was the inventor , and which he had opened for them . After the murder of Abel , the Angel shows Adam PLAN OF PARADISE LOST . 123.
... mankind died ; and yet for nine centuries he saw his sons travelling towards the grave , of which he was the inventor , and which he had opened for them . After the murder of Abel , the Angel shows Adam PLAN OF PARADISE LOST . 123.
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... graves ; with Death , Time , and Eter- nity , he associates the only great thing that man has within himself - grief . This is a striking picture . But draw nearer ; when the imagination , roused by the exordium of the poet , has ...
... graves ; with Death , Time , and Eter- nity , he associates the only great thing that man has within himself - grief . This is a striking picture . But draw nearer ; when the imagination , roused by the exordium of the poet , has ...
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... grave . Images bor- rowed from nature have a thousand resemblances to our fortunes : this man passes on in silence , like a gushing spring ; that makes a noise in his course , like a torrent ; the other precipitates his life , like a ...
... grave . Images bor- rowed from nature have a thousand resemblances to our fortunes : this man passes on in silence , like a gushing spring ; that makes a noise in his course , like a torrent ; the other precipitates his life , like a ...
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