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... Once more , compare the lazar - house , in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost , with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
... Once more , compare the lazar - house , in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost , with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
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... once more . Their common out Europe , this most important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a ...
... once more . Their common out Europe , this most important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a ...
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... once enterpris- vigilance is laid asieep , till a vital point is ex - ing and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in posed , till a sure aim is taken ; and then he strikes for the first and last time . Military courage , the boast of the ...
... once enterpris- vigilance is laid asieep , till a vital point is ex - ing and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in posed , till a sure aim is taken ; and then he strikes for the first and last time . Military courage , the boast of the ...
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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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