Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 |
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Page 101
The beginning of the third book shews that he had lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with discountenance ; and that he was offended by the licentious festivity of the ...
The beginning of the third book shews that he had lost his sight ; and the Introduction to the seventh , that the return of the King had clouded him with discountenance ; and that he was offended by the licentious festivity of the ...
Page 129
As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature ...
As human passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature ...
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Such are the faults of that wonderful performance 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 ...
Such are the faults of that wonderful performance 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 ...
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