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Page 8
... once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Mil- almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo- cular , are wonderful creations . They are not ...
... once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Mil- almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo- cular , are wonderful creations . They are not ...
Page 12
... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very act which he had been paid to pass . accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such ...
... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very act which he had been paid to pass . accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such ...
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... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten , even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten , even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
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... once trite and affected - threadbare tinsel from the Ragfairs and Monmouth - streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might perhaps write it , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable introduction ...
... once trite and affected - threadbare tinsel from the Ragfairs and Monmouth - streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might perhaps write it , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable introduction ...
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... once perceive that his courage is splendid , his thirst of glory intense , his ani- mal spirits high , his temper careless , arbitrary , and petulant ; that he indulges his own humour without caring whose feelings he may wound- or whose ...
... once perceive that his courage is splendid , his thirst of glory intense , his ani- mal spirits high , his temper careless , arbitrary , and petulant ; that he indulges his own humour without caring whose feelings he may wound- or whose ...
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