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Page vi
... give him leave to tagge his verses . " TODD . Ver . 51. I too , transported by the mode , offend , And , while I meant to praise thee , must commend . ] This is the true reading . Fenton , in his edition of Paradise Lost in 1725 ...
... give him leave to tagge his verses . " TODD . Ver . 51. I too , transported by the mode , offend , And , while I meant to praise thee , must commend . ] This is the true reading . Fenton , in his edition of Paradise Lost in 1725 ...
Page vii
... give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be sufficient to its per- fection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroick poem ...
... give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be sufficient to its per- fection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroick poem ...
Page xiii
... give B. xi . 135 , commences the eleventh day of the action . " Addison , " says Dr. Newton , " reckons only ten days to the action of the Poem ; that is , he supposes that our first Parents were expelled out of Paradise the very next ...
... give B. xi . 135 , commences the eleventh day of the action . " Addison , " says Dr. Newton , " reckons only ten days to the action of the Poem ; that is , he supposes that our first Parents were expelled out of Paradise the very next ...
Page xvi
... gives a peculiar beauty to those two poems , and was therefore contrived with very great judgement . I mean the author's having chosen , for their heroes , persons who were so nearly related to the people for whom they wrote . Achil ...
... gives a peculiar beauty to those two poems , and was therefore contrived with very great judgement . I mean the author's having chosen , for their heroes , persons who were so nearly related to the people for whom they wrote . Achil ...
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... give particular instances out of the Poem , now before us , of beauties and imperfections which may be observed under each of them ; as also of such other particulars , as may not properly fall under any of them . This I thought fit to ...
... give particular instances out of the Poem , now before us , of beauties and imperfections which may be observed under each of them ; as also of such other particulars , as may not properly fall under any of them . This I thought fit to ...
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