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... Death , either as to the greatness and justness of the invention , or the height and beauty of the colouring . What I looked upon as a rant of Barrow's , I now begin to think a serious truth , and could almost venture to set my hand to ...
... Death , either as to the greatness and justness of the invention , or the height and beauty of the colouring . What I looked upon as a rant of Barrow's , I now begin to think a serious truth , and could almost venture to set my hand to ...
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... Death " renders the grandest passages in Homer and Virgil comparatively feeble and dwarfish ” ( Diary of a Lover of Literature , Ipswich , 1810 , p . 192 ) . △ Divine Legation of Moses ( 1738 ) , in Works , ed . R. Hurd , 1811 , ii ...
... Death " renders the grandest passages in Homer and Virgil comparatively feeble and dwarfish ” ( Diary of a Lover of Literature , Ipswich , 1810 , p . 192 ) . △ Divine Legation of Moses ( 1738 ) , in Works , ed . R. Hurd , 1811 , ii ...
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... Death into the World , With Loss of Paradise and Immortality , To Him and to his Sons sing , heavenly MUSE ! But the assistance which the less educated readers found most to their taste was more direct and even more astonishing than ...
... Death into the World , With Loss of Paradise and Immortality , To Him and to his Sons sing , heavenly MUSE ! But the assistance which the less educated readers found most to their taste was more direct and even more astonishing than ...
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... death , was far more mechanical and rigid than Pope's practice . The little bard was simply the supreme manifestation of a movement that was flourishing vigorously before his birth . If we are to understand the eighteenth century , we ...
... death , was far more mechanical and rigid than Pope's practice . The little bard was simply the supreme manifestation of a movement that was flourishing vigorously before his birth . If we are to understand the eighteenth century , we ...
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... death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , Heavenly Muse . 2. The ORGAN TONE , the sonorous orotund which is always asso- ciated with Milton's ...
... death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , Heavenly Muse . 2. The ORGAN TONE , the sonorous orotund which is always asso- ciated with Milton's ...
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