Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... Paradise Lost . In Twelve Books . BEN JONSON . Book I. II . To William Camden ..... 2 III . From Cynthia's Revels .. ib . IV . From the Silent Woman . ib . V. Hags ..... ib . VI . Epitaph.on the Countess of Pembroke , Sister VII . to ...
... Paradise Lost . In Twelve Books . BEN JONSON . Book I. II . To William Camden ..... 2 III . From Cynthia's Revels .. ib . IV . From the Silent Woman . ib . V. Hags ..... ib . VI . Epitaph.on the Countess of Pembroke , Sister VII . to ...
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... Paradise Lost . Much exercised all his powers of Latin rhetoric , both to discussion has taken place concerning the original justify the republican party , and to confound and conception of this grand performance ; but what- vilify the ...
... Paradise Lost . Much exercised all his powers of Latin rhetoric , both to discussion has taken place concerning the original justify the republican party , and to confound and conception of this grand performance ; but what- vilify the ...
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... Paradise Lost . Although , in point of inven- nearly completed his 66th year . His remains were tion , its inferiority is plainly apparent , yet modern carried from his house in Bunhill - Fields to the criticism has pronounced that ...
... Paradise Lost . Although , in point of inven- nearly completed his 66th year . His remains were tion , its inferiority is plainly apparent , yet modern carried from his house in Bunhill - Fields to the criticism has pronounced that ...
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... PARADISE LOST . And from thence can soar as soon. 830 Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine , That had the sceptre from his father brute . She , guiltless damsel , flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen , Commended her ...
... PARADISE LOST . And from thence can soar as soon. 830 Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine , That had the sceptre from his father brute . She , guiltless damsel , flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen , Commended her ...
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... PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1020 The first Book proposes , first in brief , the whole subject , Man's disobedience , and the loss there- upon of Paradise wherein he was placed : then touches the prime cause of his fall , the ...
... PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1020 The first Book proposes , first in brief , the whole subject , Man's disobedience , and the loss there- upon of Paradise wherein he was placed : then touches the prime cause of his fall , the ...
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