Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 38
... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can ... kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to ...
... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can ... kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to ...
Page 101
... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence . I cannot ...
... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence . I cannot ...
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... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
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