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... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
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... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
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... English plays alone is to be found the warmth , the mellowness , and the reality of painting . We know the minds of the men and women , as we know the faces of the men and women of Van- dyke . in the writers whom they reprobated ; but ...
... English plays alone is to be found the warmth , the mellowness , and the reality of painting . We know the minds of the men and women , as we know the faces of the men and women of Van- dyke . in the writers whom they reprobated ; but ...
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... English have been so long accustomed to political speculation , and have enjoyed so large a measure of prac tical liberty , that such works have produced little effect on their minds . We have classical associations and great names of ...
... English have been so long accustomed to political speculation , and have enjoyed so large a measure of prac tical liberty , that such works have produced little effect on their minds . We have classical associations and great names of ...
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... English heart . Hence it was that he loved to surround his throne with such men as Hale and Blake . Hence it was that he allowed so large a share of political liberty to his subjects , and that , even when an opposition , dangerous to ...
... English heart . Hence it was that he loved to surround his throne with such men as Hale and Blake . Hence it was that he allowed so large a share of political liberty to his subjects , and that , even when an opposition , dangerous to ...
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