The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Paradise Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets . By Addison ... Address to Great Britain . From Thomson's Summer ... Dr. Johnson's Prologue to ... PARADISE LOST THE LIFE.
... Paradise Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets . By Addison ... Address to Great Britain . From Thomson's Summer ... Dr. Johnson's Prologue to ... PARADISE LOST THE LIFE.
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... Paradise Lost ; ' a design so comprehensive , that it could be justified only by success . He had once designed to celebrate King Arthur , as he hints in his verses to Mansus ; but ' Arthur was reserved , ' says Fenton , ' to another ...
... Paradise Lost ; ' a design so comprehensive , that it could be justified only by success . He had once designed to celebrate King Arthur , as he hints in his verses to Mansus ; but ' Arthur was reserved , ' says Fenton , ' to another ...
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Including Translations ... PARADISE LOST . THE PERSONS . Moses , poλoy , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like with Enoch and Elijah ; besides the purity ...
Including Translations ... PARADISE LOST . THE PERSONS . Moses , poλoy , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like with Enoch and Elijah ; besides the purity ...
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... Paradise Lost ; ' but it is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state , pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence : nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion ...
... Paradise Lost ; ' but it is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state , pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence : nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion ...
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... Paradise Lost , ' could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical con- fusion , and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily re- peated . About this time Elwood the Quaker , being recom- mended to him ...
... Paradise Lost , ' could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical con- fusion , and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily re- peated . About this time Elwood the Quaker , being recom- mended to him ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.