The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Grace . Goodwin was named , with nineteen more , as incapacitated for any public trust ; but of Milton there was no exception . Of this tenderness shown to Milton , the curiosity of mankind has not forborne to inquire the reason ...
... Grace . Goodwin was named , with nineteen more , as incapacitated for any public trust ; but of Milton there was no exception . Of this tenderness shown to Milton , the curiosity of mankind has not forborne to inquire the reason ...
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... grace of novelty . Milton , however it happened , had this prejudice , and had it to himself . To that multiplicity of attainments , and extent of comprehension , that entitled this great author to our veneration , may be added a kind ...
... grace of novelty . Milton , however it happened , had this prejudice , and had it to himself . To that multiplicity of attainments , and extent of comprehension , that entitled this great author to our veneration , may be added a kind ...
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... grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness ; he was a Lion that had no skill in dandling the Kid . 6 One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed is Lycidas ; ' of which the diction is harsh , the ...
... grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness ; he was a Lion that had no skill in dandling the Kid . 6 One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed is Lycidas ; ' of which the diction is harsh , the ...
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... grace ; but his natural port is gigantic lofti- ness He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . 26 He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature ...
... grace ; but his natural port is gigantic lofti- ness He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . 26 He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature ...
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... grace in its deformity . Whatever be the faults of his diction , he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety : he was master of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melodious words with such diligence , that ...
... grace in its deformity . Whatever be the faults of his diction , he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety : he was master of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melodious words with such diligence , that ...
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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.