Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - 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 ...
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... 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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