The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets . By ... LOST . Book 1 .. Book II .. Book III . Book IV . Book V. Book VI .. 102 128 160 ..... 183 214 242 ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR ...
... Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets . By ... LOST . Book 1 .. Book II .. Book III . Book IV . Book V. Book VI .. 102 128 160 ..... 183 214 242 ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR ...
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Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
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Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . BY.
Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . BY.
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... 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 destiny ...
... 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 destiny ...
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... lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Igno- > Mutes . rance , Fear , Death , Likewise Winter , To whom he ...
... lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Igno- > Mutes . rance , Fear , Death , Likewise Winter , To whom he ...
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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.