Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the 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 ...
... passions did not enter the world before the Fall , there is in the 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 ...
Page 122
... passion . From such remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con ... passions are co - extended with the race of man ; but those modifi- cations of life and peculiarities of practice ...
... passion . From such remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con ... passions are co - extended with the race of man ; but those modifi- cations of life and peculiarities of practice ...
Page 170
... passion : Some other nymphs , with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time ... passions , and the variety of human wants . Such books , therefore , may be considered as showing the world under a ...
... passion : Some other nymphs , with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time ... passions , and the variety of human wants . Such books , therefore , may be considered as showing the world under a ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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