 ... moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 430edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
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...are now distasteful. Macaulay is a case in point, when he commemorates ' 'in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...the glory of English literature, the champion and martyr of English liberty" (152). Today such enthusiasm sets teeth on edge. Arthur Barker speaks for... | |
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