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... example ) , issues containing only part of the poem , and Irish , Scottish , and American editions ? Assuming that they do not , and accordingly omitting the six versions in prose and all other adaptations and translations even when ...
... example ) , issues containing only part of the poem , and Irish , Scottish , and American editions ? Assuming that they do not , and accordingly omitting the six versions in prose and all other adaptations and translations even when ...
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... example , " I have a fondness " for Waller , but " I pay adoration " to Milton.2 Warburton , who himself thought the English epic superior to those of Greece and Rome , must have been sneering at more extreme views when he spoke of ...
... example , " I have a fondness " for Waller , but " I pay adoration " to Milton.2 Warburton , who himself thought the English epic superior to those of Greece and Rome , must have been sneering at more extreme views when he spoke of ...
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... example , or comparison . . His subject , and his conduct of it , exalt him to a supreme rank . . . with which all other poets compare but as a second class . " 4 Sometimes no specific work is mentioned by an admirer , but Mil- ton is ...
... example , or comparison . . His subject , and his conduct of it , exalt him to a supreme rank . . . with which all other poets compare but as a second class . " 4 Sometimes no specific work is mentioned by an admirer , but Mil- ton is ...
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... example , writes , " I have drawn more quotations out of him [ Milton ] than from any other " ( Spectator , no . 262 ) ; and Lord Monboddo says , “ I . . . shall . . quote him oftener than any other English writer , because I consider ...
... example , writes , " I have drawn more quotations out of him [ Milton ] than from any other " ( Spectator , no . 262 ) ; and Lord Monboddo says , “ I . . . shall . . quote him oftener than any other English writer , because I consider ...
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... example , who was en- tirely out of sympathy with Milton's political activities , qualified his statement that Paradise Lost " was esteemed the beautifulest and perfectest poem that ever was writ " by adding , " at least in our lan ...
... example , who was en- tirely out of sympathy with Milton's political activities , qualified his statement that Paradise Lost " was esteemed the beautifulest and perfectest poem that ever was writ " by adding , " at least in our lan ...
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