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Page xiii
... passages , better perhaps than anywhere else in the Lives , we can appreciate the standards of eighteenth- century poetry , and fathom their limitations . Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ...
... passages , better perhaps than anywhere else in the Lives , we can appreciate the standards of eighteenth- century poetry , and fathom their limitations . Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ...
Page 129
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
Page 260
... passages in the Conquest of Granada and Assignation , which were not published till 1678 , in Mar- riage Alamode ... passage in the Rehearsal still remaining , which seems to have related originally to Davenant . Bayes hurts his ...
... passages in the Conquest of Granada and Assignation , which were not published till 1678 , in Mar- riage Alamode ... passage in the Rehearsal still remaining , which seems to have related originally to Davenant . Bayes hurts his ...
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