Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 101
... lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with dis ... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast ...
... lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with dis ... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast ...
Page 129
... Paradise Lost little oppor- tunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the con- sciousness of transgression , and the horrours ...
... Paradise Lost little oppor- tunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the con- sciousness of transgression , and the horrours ...
Page 135
... Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull , as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the general ...
... Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull , as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the general ...
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