Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ? ” Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill - fields ...
... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ? ” Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill - fields ...
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... Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending ...
... Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending ...
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... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow : a dialogue without action can never please like an union of the narrative and dramatic powers ...
... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow : a dialogue without action can never please like an union of the narrative and dramatic powers ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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