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... , as well as the reason why long and serious poems like The Seasons and Night Thoughts , which were liked by almost every one , were not regarded as great . all out , and the ancients too . " 1 20 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
... , as well as the reason why long and serious poems like The Seasons and Night Thoughts , which were liked by almost every one , were not regarded as great . all out , and the ancients too . " 1 20 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
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... Night Thoughts and Paradise Lost but " was astonished to learn that Young and Milton had written anything else . Of Pope , she had only seen the Eloisa ; and Dryden , Spenser , Thomson , and Prior , were quite unknown to her , even by ...
... Night Thoughts and Paradise Lost but " was astonished to learn that Young and Milton had written anything else . Of Pope , she had only seen the Eloisa ; and Dryden , Spenser , Thomson , and Prior , were quite unknown to her , even by ...
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... Night Thoughts are read by all sorts of people . . . . the common people . . are fond of Milton's poems . ' 2 " 74 3 So general , in fact , did this fondness become that children were early introduced to the poems . It will be ...
... Night Thoughts are read by all sorts of people . . . . the common people . . are fond of Milton's poems . ' 2 " 74 3 So general , in fact , did this fondness become that children were early introduced to the poems . It will be ...
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... Night Thoughts , The Grave , Pleasures of Imagination , and The Task.2 These , with Paradise Lost , were the poems most read ; obviously , then , it is only when a critic restricts himself to such literature as seems to him most ...
... Night Thoughts , The Grave , Pleasures of Imagination , and The Task.2 These , with Paradise Lost , were the poems most read ; obviously , then , it is only when a critic restricts himself to such literature as seems to him most ...
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... Night ( 1728 ) , though blank verse receives high praise in the preface . * Essays on Poetry and Music , 382. Samuel Woodford , in the preface to his Para- phrase upon the Canticles ( 1679 ) , printed as poetry a passage from the ...
... Night ( 1728 ) , though blank verse receives high praise in the preface . * Essays on Poetry and Music , 382. Samuel Woodford , in the preface to his Para- phrase upon the Canticles ( 1679 ) , printed as poetry a passage from the ...
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