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Page 103
... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason . Milton , though he entitled Paradise Lost ...
... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason . Milton , though he entitled Paradise Lost ...
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... poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in which therefore every mind was interested , the reception was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookseller , told me he had ...
... poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in which therefore every mind was interested , the reception was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookseller , told me he had ...
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... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , " Orbem jam totum , " etc. Of the ...
... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , " Orbem jam totum , " etc. Of the ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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