Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... things , came like another nightfall upon our higher litera- ture , putting out the light of poetry in the land still more effectually than even that previous triumph of the popular principle . Up to this date English literature had ...
... things , came like another nightfall upon our higher litera- ture , putting out the light of poetry in the land still more effectually than even that previous triumph of the popular principle . Up to this date English literature had ...
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... thing else , or ever divert our imagination from these two objects for what can more affect us than the greatest : glory that ever was visible upon earth , and at 14 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND . Thomas Burnet.
... thing else , or ever divert our imagination from these two objects for what can more affect us than the greatest : glory that ever was visible upon earth , and at 14 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND . Thomas Burnet.
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... things will make the day dead and melancholy ; but the night scenes will have more of horror in them , when the blazing stars appear , like so many furies with their lighted torches , threatening to set all on fire . For I do not doubt ...
... things will make the day dead and melancholy ; but the night scenes will have more of horror in them , when the blazing stars appear , like so many furies with their lighted torches , threatening to set all on fire . For I do not doubt ...
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... things exceed the measures of human affairs , and of human thoughts : we have neither words nor comparisons to make ... thing to be ready for the fatal hour ; and then , after a little silence , all the host of heaven to raise their ...
... things exceed the measures of human affairs , and of human thoughts : we have neither words nor comparisons to make ... thing to be ready for the fatal hour ; and then , after a little silence , all the host of heaven to raise their ...
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... things cannot come to pass without the greatest disorders imagi- nable , both in the minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to see a single person burnt alive ...
... things cannot come to pass without the greatest disorders imagi- nable , both in the minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to see a single person burnt alive ...
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