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... earlier half of her lifetime , Pope reigned paramount in poetry , and 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 ...
... earlier half of her lifetime , Pope reigned paramount in poetry , and 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 ...
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... earlier times , closely associated with the life and thought of the day and thronged with persons of all classes , each bearing his gift . In the twentieth century there are few even of Milton's admirers whose feeling for the poet could ...
... earlier times , closely associated with the life and thought of the day and thronged with persons of all classes , each bearing his gift . In the twentieth century there are few even of Milton's admirers whose feeling for the poet could ...
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... earlier : " His Juvenile Poems . . . are sufficient to have set him among the most Celebrated of the Poets , even of the Ancients themselves ; his Mask and Lycidas are perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . . . the Allegro and ...
... earlier : " His Juvenile Poems . . . are sufficient to have set him among the most Celebrated of the Poets , even of the Ancients themselves ; his Mask and Lycidas are perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . . . the Allegro and ...
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... earlier , grants only that " within a certain limited region , he [ Pope ] has been outdone by no Poet " ( ii . 369 ) ; and William Belsham writes ( Essays , 2d ed . , 1799 , ii . 506 ) , “ Though the warmest admirers of Pope have never ...
... earlier , grants only that " within a certain limited region , he [ Pope ] has been outdone by no Poet " ( ii . 369 ) ; and William Belsham writes ( Essays , 2d ed . , 1799 , ii . 506 ) , “ Though the warmest admirers of Pope have never ...
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... earlier forms show less appreciation of Milton . Chalmers ( English Poets , x . 77–8 ) quotes Dryden's , Addison's , and Pope's praise of the Essay . 3 See p . 89 below . A Pindarique Ode , humbly offer'd to the Queen ( 1706 ) , in ...
... earlier forms show less appreciation of Milton . Chalmers ( English Poets , x . 77–8 ) quotes Dryden's , Addison's , and Pope's praise of the Essay . 3 See p . 89 below . A Pindarique Ode , humbly offer'd to the Queen ( 1706 ) , in ...
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