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Page 36
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
Page 122
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons 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 persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
Page 328
... 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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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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