The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... opinion , which has tended to confound the original writings of Dryden and Pope with the degenerate productions of their followers . The poetical character of an age is inevitably influenced and directed by the social tone of the ...
... opinion , which has tended to confound the original writings of Dryden and Pope with the degenerate productions of their followers . The poetical character of an age is inevitably influenced and directed by the social tone of the ...
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... opinions , to asperse a young man of twenty - six , who was igno- rant of public affairs , for his acquiescence in an ... opinion for the mere sake of uniformity , is simply a dogged adherence to a false principle . We are often told of ...
... opinions , to asperse a young man of twenty - six , who was igno- rant of public affairs , for his acquiescence in an ... opinion for the mere sake of uniformity , is simply a dogged adherence to a false principle . We are often told of ...
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... opinion . Those who had occasionally written poetry , or who had not cared to write at all , were now zealous in writing tragedy and comedy for court favour and pecuniary reward . But the harvest was not so rich as the reapers had ...
... opinion . Those who had occasionally written poetry , or who had not cared to write at all , were now zealous in writing tragedy and comedy for court favour and pecuniary reward . But the harvest was not so rich as the reapers had ...
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... opinion for the sake of peace , which the Church of Rome maintains in practice for the sake of political unity . It was the wise policy of the Church of England , with a view at once of obviating individual compromise , and of ...
... opinion for the sake of peace , which the Church of Rome maintains in practice for the sake of political unity . It was the wise policy of the Church of England , with a view at once of obviating individual compromise , and of ...
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... king . 6 The divisions of the nation then recognised every conceivable shade of religious opinion , from the scarlet of Babylon to the drab of the Quaker . Many of these differences undoubtedly 28 July , The Genius of Dryden .
... king . 6 The divisions of the nation then recognised every conceivable shade of religious opinion , from the scarlet of Babylon to the drab of the Quaker . Many of these differences undoubtedly 28 July , The Genius of Dryden .
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Page 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
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