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Page 93
... the supreme powers of his country , and was then writing Paradise Lost , could de- scend from his elevation to rescue children from the per- plexity of grammatical confusion , and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated .
... the supreme powers of his country , and was then writing Paradise Lost , could de- scend from his elevation to rescue children from the per- plexity of grammatical confusion , and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated .
Page 100
In the history of Paradise Lost a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neglected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary ...
In the history of Paradise Lost a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neglected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary ...
Page 125
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 Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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