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... lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with ... Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon ...
... lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with ... Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature ... Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind MILTON 51.
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature ... Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind MILTON 51.
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... Lost we read a book of universal knowledge . .7 But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up ...
... Lost we read a book of universal knowledge . .7 But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up ...
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
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