Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 118
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by per- sons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by per- sons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
Page 140
... original and peculiar . We must not , however , suffer the pride , which we assume as the countrymen of Butler , to make any encroachment upon justice , nor appropriate those honours which others have a right to share . The poem of ...
... original and peculiar . We must not , however , suffer the pride , which we assume as the countrymen of Butler , to make any encroachment upon justice , nor appropriate those honours which others have a right to share . The poem of ...
Page 316
... original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
... original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
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