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172 , App . xxxii . on passages in the Paradise Lost , taken from the Setti giorni of Tasso . See Black's Life of Tasso , vol . ii . p . 469 . before appeared : and some translations are given which are X ADVERTISEMENT .
172 , App . xxxii . on passages in the Paradise Lost , taken from the Setti giorni of Tasso . See Black's Life of Tasso , vol . ii . p . 469 . before appeared : and some translations are given which are X ADVERTISEMENT .
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But if the wild attempt to unite his own lifeless and prosaic passages with the living spirit of Milton's poetry , were an act of presumption in the aged critic ; yet , I must confess , there is something less of arrogance in the manner ...
But if the wild attempt to unite his own lifeless and prosaic passages with the living spirit of Milton's poetry , were an act of presumption in the aged critic ; yet , I must confess , there is something less of arrogance in the manner ...
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653 ) ; but only to restore what he conceived to be the sense and meaning of the passage . The conjectures which , in his own . printed edition , I find waiting in the margin , and eager for admittance into the verse , in his MS . copy ...
653 ) ; but only to restore what he conceived to be the sense and meaning of the passage . The conjectures which , in his own . printed edition , I find waiting in the margin , and eager for admittance into the verse , in his MS . copy ...
Page xiv
1021 , he strikes out the whole passage of Sin and Death following Satan , amounting to ten entire lines , and then says , ' Perhaps I shall have some votes to accompany mine , that this too is an interpolation .
1021 , he strikes out the whole passage of Sin and Death following Satan , amounting to ten entire lines , and then says , ' Perhaps I shall have some votes to accompany mine , that this too is an interpolation .
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... and in comparing the different periods in which great talents have displayed both the promise , and the direction of their future power ; will not be displeased at my recalling to their memory the passage in that elegant biography ...
... and in comparing the different periods in which great talents have displayed both the promise , and the direction of their future power ; will not be displeased at my recalling to their memory the passage in that elegant biography ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1 The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, John Mitford |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2009 |
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