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... human race , the restored Charles arrived . The consequences were disastrous to Milton . His name was proscribed , his books burned , himself obliged to abscond , and it was what some would call a miracle that this blinded Samson was ...
... human race , the restored Charles arrived . The consequences were disastrous to Milton . His name was proscribed , his books burned , himself obliged to abscond , and it was what some would call a miracle that this blinded Samson was ...
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... human genius and of divine illumination . We have seen the first edition of this marvellous poem - a small , humble duodecimo , in ten books , which was the original number ; but to us it seemed rich all over , as a summer's sunset ...
... human genius and of divine illumination . We have seen the first edition of this marvellous poem - a small , humble duodecimo , in ten books , which was the original number ; but to us it seemed rich all over , as a summer's sunset ...
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... human productions - it ought to be called the most ambitious . It is the Tower of Babel , the top of which did not , indeed , reach unto heaven , but did certainly surpass all the other structures then upon earth . It stands alone ...
... human productions - it ought to be called the most ambitious . It is the Tower of Babel , the top of which did not , indeed , reach unto heaven , but did certainly surpass all the other structures then upon earth . It stands alone ...
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... human mind . Its hero is undoubtedly , as Dryden long ago asserted , Satan , if the most interesting character in the book deserves the name of hero ; if , for example , Fergus MacIvor , and not Waver- ley , is the hero of that tale ...
... human mind . Its hero is undoubtedly , as Dryden long ago asserted , Satan , if the most interesting character in the book deserves the name of hero ; if , for example , Fergus MacIvor , and not Waver- ley , is the hero of that tale ...
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... human , yet unfallen ; to make , in short , a new thing on the earth , a man and a woman , beautiful beyond desire , simple beyond disguise , graceful without consciousness , naked without shame , innocent but not insipid , lofty but ...
... human , yet unfallen ; to make , in short , a new thing on the earth , a man and a woman , beautiful beyond desire , simple beyond disguise , graceful without consciousness , naked without shame , innocent but not insipid , lofty but ...
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admiration amid beautiful Bunyan burning Byron called calm Carlyle character Christianity Cobbett Coleridge Crabbe criticism dark death deep divine Dr Johnson dream earnest earth Edinburgh Review eloquent Emerson eternal Eugene Aram fancy feeling Festus fire Foster genius George Dawson gloom glory grandeur heart heaven hell human humour imagination intellect Isaac Taylor John Bunyan language Leigh Hunt less light literary living Lochnagar look Macaulay melancholy Milton mind misery moral mountains nature ness never night object Paradise Lost passion peculiar Pilgrim's Progress poems poet poetical poetry popular praise profound prophet prose Quincey seems shadow Shakspere Shelley sincere song sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars strong style sublime sweet sympathy tears thing Thomas Carlyle Thomas De Quincey Thomas Macaulay thou thought tion trembling true truth verse vision voice William Cobbett wonder words Wordsworth writings