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... reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision . If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana2 . Of the exercises , which ...
... reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision . If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana2 . Of the exercises , which ...
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... reigns of Charles and James the ' Pa- radise Lost ' received no public acclamations , is rea- dily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the ...
... reigns of Charles and James the ' Pa- radise Lost ' received no public acclamations , is rea- dily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the ...
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... reign , Draws the devout , deterring the profane : And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And ...
... reign , Draws the devout , deterring the profane : And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And ...
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... of Spirits arm'd , That durst dislike his reign ; and , me preferring , His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of heaven , • [ lost ? And shook his throne . What though 106 B. I. PARADISE LOST .
... of Spirits arm'd , That durst dislike his reign ; and , me preferring , His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of heaven , • [ lost ? And shook his throne . What though 106 B. I. PARADISE LOST .
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... reign secure ; —and , in my choice , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , The ' associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus ...
... reign secure ; —and , in my choice , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , The ' associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus ...
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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.