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... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilised world , his place has ...
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... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Pied- mont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
... English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Pied- mont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
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... English- Recent controversies have , however , given so much importance to this subject , that we will offer a few remarks on it . man . In the first place , the arguments which are urged in favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater ...
... English- Recent controversies have , however , given so much importance to this subject , that we will offer a few remarks on it . man . In the first place , the arguments which are urged in favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater ...
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... English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its tri- umphs added nothing to his fame ; its in- crease added nothing to his means of over- awing his enemies ; its great leader was not his friend . Yet he took a peculiar pleasure in ...
... English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its tri- umphs added nothing to his fame ; its in- crease added nothing to his means of over- awing his enemies ; its great leader was not his friend . Yet he took a peculiar pleasure in ...
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... English armies . The oppressed Cavaliers in England constantly looked to the Louvre and the Escurial for deliverance and revenge . Clarendon censures the continental govern- ments with great bitterness for not inter- fering in our ...
... English armies . The oppressed Cavaliers in England constantly looked to the Louvre and the Escurial for deliverance and revenge . Clarendon censures the continental govern- ments with great bitterness for not inter- fering in our ...
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