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When the plague ( 1665 ) raged in London , Milton took refuge at Chalfont in Bucks ; where Elwood , who had taken the house for him , first saw a complete copy of Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said ...
When the plague ( 1665 ) raged in London , Milton took refuge at Chalfont in Bucks ; where Elwood , who had taken the house for him , first saw a complete copy of Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said ...
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This was the greatest benefaction that Paradise Lost ever procured the author's descendants ; and to this he who has now attempted to relate his Life , had the honour of contributing a Prologue . In the examination of Milton's poetical ...
This was the greatest benefaction that Paradise Lost ever procured the author's descendants ; and to this he who has now attempted to relate his Life , had the honour of contributing a Prologue . In the examination of Milton's poetical ...
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As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature ...
As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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