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Page 13
... Sentiments , and the Language of MILTON's Paradise Lost ; not doubting but the reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the same time whatever may be said for the extenuation of such defects . The first imperfection which I shall observe ...
... Sentiments , and the Language of MILTON's Paradise Lost ; not doubting but the reader will pardon me , if I alledge at the same time whatever may be said for the extenuation of such defects . The first imperfection which I shall observe ...
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... Sentiments , I think they are sometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several of them too much pointed , and some that degenerate even into Puns . Of this last kind , I am afraid , that in the first book ...
... Sentiments , I think they are sometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several of them too much pointed , and some that degenerate even into Puns . Of this last kind , I am afraid , that in the first book ...
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... Sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime , that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty , without having recourse to these foreign assistances . Our language sunk under ...
... Sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime , that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty , without having recourse to these foreign assistances . Our language sunk under ...
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... sentiments which they bear to one another ; for though the whole day may be sometimes too short for hatred as well as for love , yet the many hours which they naturally spend together apart from all observers , furnish people , of ...
... sentiments which they bear to one another ; for though the whole day may be sometimes too short for hatred as well as for love , yet the many hours which they naturally spend together apart from all observers , furnish people , of ...
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... sentiment , as I think the transition to the fable is exquisitely beautiful and natural . M NI SARANT The nine days astonishment , in which the angels lay entranced after their dreadful overthrow and fall from heaven , before they could ...
... sentiment , as I think the transition to the fable is exquisitely beautiful and natural . M NI SARANT The nine days astonishment , in which the angels lay entranced after their dreadful overthrow and fall from heaven , before they could ...
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