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... success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar he had studied all the ...
... success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar he had studied all the ...
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... successful performances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in ... success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ...
... successful performances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in ... success . The Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ...
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... successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is ... success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be ...
... successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is ... success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be ...
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... success . The men who demolished the images in Cathe - ing , laid himself open to the charge of incon- drals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be difficult to show that in po ...
... success . The men who demolished the images in Cathe - ing , laid himself open to the charge of incon- drals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be difficult to show that in po ...
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... success of the Guelfs . That success would , however , have been a doubtful good , if its only effect had been to substitute a moral for a political servitude , and to exalt the Popes at the ex- pense of the Cæsars . Happily the public ...
... success of the Guelfs . That success would , however , have been a doubtful good , if its only effect had been to substitute a moral for a political servitude , and to exalt the Popes at the ex- pense of the Cæsars . Happily the public ...
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