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... EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES XX . THE INFLUENCE OF THE REMAINING POEMS LYCIDAS COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES THE TRANSLATION FROM HORACE THE NATIVITY . • 419 439✓ 478 · 549 549 555 560 565 APPENDICES A. PARALLEL PASSAGES , SHOWING ...
... EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES XX . THE INFLUENCE OF THE REMAINING POEMS LYCIDAS COMUS AND SAMSON AGONISTES THE TRANSLATION FROM HORACE THE NATIVITY . • 419 439✓ 478 · 549 549 555 560 565 APPENDICES A. PARALLEL PASSAGES , SHOWING ...
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... early as 1704 , when the epic was characterized by a leading critic as " the greatest Poem that ever was written by Man , " and as late as 1796 , when it was described as " the noblest poem , perhaps , that ever the wit of man produced ...
... early as 1704 , when the epic was characterized by a leading critic as " the greatest Poem that ever was written by Man , " and as late as 1796 , when it was described as " the noblest poem , perhaps , that ever the wit of man produced ...
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... early as 1694 , in his Account of the Greatest English Poets , he devoted thirty lines to Milton , and later imitated two of his poems ; he had much to say about Paradise Lost in his Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning , in the ...
... early as 1694 , in his Account of the Greatest English Poets , he devoted thirty lines to Milton , and later imitated two of his poems ; he had much to say about Paradise Lost in his Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning , in the ...
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... early as 1706 Defoe had composed three poems in a verse roughly modelled upon that of Paradise Lost , and had asked , " Who can read Virgil , Horace , Ovid , Milton , Waller , or Rochester , without touching the Strings of his Soul ...
... early as 1706 Defoe had composed three poems in a verse roughly modelled upon that of Paradise Lost , and had asked , " Who can read Virgil , Horace , Ovid , Milton , Waller , or Rochester , without touching the Strings of his Soul ...
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... early eighteenth century without encountering Bishop Atterbury , the best preacher of the age and according to Addison one of its greatest geniuses , who narrowly escaped execution for his Jacobite activities . 1 See Bibl . I , 1712 ...
... early eighteenth century without encountering Bishop Atterbury , the best preacher of the age and according to Addison one of its greatest geniuses , who narrowly escaped execution for his Jacobite activities . 1 See Bibl . I , 1712 ...
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