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... Milton's epic as " a poem that every one talks about and no one reads . " Conditions may be better in Great Britain and her colo- nies ; yet within the last decade an ... Milton " was CHAPTER PAGE MILTON'S FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
... Milton's epic as " a poem that every one talks about and no one reads . " Conditions may be better in Great Britain and her colo- nies ; yet within the last decade an ... Milton " was CHAPTER PAGE MILTON'S FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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... Milton was practically forgotten : during the latter half , people were beginning to forget Pope , and to remember Milton . " These views are not only accepted by most students , but , as they agree with what we know of Milton and of ...
... Milton was practically forgotten : during the latter half , people were beginning to forget Pope , and to remember Milton . " These views are not only accepted by most students , but , as they agree with what we know of Milton and of ...
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... Milton scholarship was active in the eighteenth cen- tury ; indeed , it was much more active , and aside from Masson's monumental Life more fruitful , than it has been since . To prove this , or to give any adequate conception of the ...
... Milton scholarship was active in the eighteenth cen- tury ; indeed , it was much more active , and aside from Masson's monumental Life more fruitful , than it has been since . To prove this , or to give any adequate conception of the ...
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... Milton's shrine , instead of being , as it is now , " remote and rarely visited , " was , like that of Thomas à Becket or of St. James of Compostella in earlier times , closely associated with the life and thought of the day and ...
... Milton's shrine , instead of being , as it is now , " remote and rarely visited , " was , like that of Thomas à Becket or of St. James of Compostella in earlier times , closely associated with the life and thought of the day and ...
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... Milton's character , opposed blank verse , and ridiculed Lycidas and the sonnets , commended the epic as " a poem which , considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to per- formance the second ...
... Milton's character , opposed blank verse , and ridiculed Lycidas and the sonnets , commended the epic as " a poem which , considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to per- formance the second ...
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