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Page 108
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere ...
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere ...
Page 253
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He.
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He.
Page 329
... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - second year he first showed his power of English poetry , by some verses addressed to Dryden ; and soon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon ...
... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - second year he first showed his power of English poetry , by some verses addressed to Dryden ; and soon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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