Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 110
... lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ! These lines were at the beginning of the poems . Of a book written in a language not under- stood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ...
... lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ! These lines were at the beginning of the poems . Of a book written in a language not under- stood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ...
Page 303
... lines seriously , and that some wag had added the two latter in burlesque . Who would expect the lines that immediately follow , which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical , but certainly in a mode totally different ? To see this ...
... lines seriously , and that some wag had added the two latter in burlesque . Who would expect the lines that immediately follow , which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical , but certainly in a mode totally different ? To see this ...
Page 431
... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel lines which run on together without approximation , never far separated , and never ...
... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel lines which run on together without approximation , never far separated , and never ...
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