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... beauties , many just sentiments and striking lines ; but it wants that power of attracting the attention which a well - connected plan produces . Milton would not have excelled in dramatick writing ; he knew human nature only in the ...
... beauties , many just sentiments and striking lines ; but it wants that power of attracting the attention which a well - connected plan produces . Milton would not have excelled in dramatick writing ; he knew human nature only in the ...
Page 90
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees in heroick numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of ...
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees in heroick numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of ...
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... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
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Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote