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... give any adequate conception of the extent of the critical attention devoted to Milton , would , however , require not a chapter but a volume . Editions of the poet and essays on his works contain but a fraction of the writings on the ...
... give any adequate conception of the extent of the critical attention devoted to Milton , would , however , require not a chapter but a volume . Editions of the poet and essays on his works contain but a fraction of the writings on the ...
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... give any adequate conception of the widespread , enthusiastic admiration which the poems aroused . Regarding Paradise Lost we have seen that a remarkable unanim- ity of opinion prevailed . There must have been those who did not care for ...
... give any adequate conception of the widespread , enthusiastic admiration which the poems aroused . Regarding Paradise Lost we have seen that a remarkable unanim- ity of opinion prevailed . There must have been those who did not care for ...
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... gives his amaranthine crown.2 993 Even the conservative Critical Review remarked that the works of Shakespeare and Milton were " superior to all those of antiquity , ' and one of the editors of Paradise Lost declared that its author ...
... gives his amaranthine crown.2 993 Even the conservative Critical Review remarked that the works of Shakespeare and Milton were " superior to all those of antiquity , ' and one of the editors of Paradise Lost declared that its author ...
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... gives these controversies their significance is the large number who took part in them . " The question , whether Milton borrow'd from Masenius , " wrote an Englishman in Louvain to the Gentleman's Magazine , " concerns , in my opinion ...
... gives these controversies their significance is the large number who took part in them . " The question , whether Milton borrow'd from Masenius , " wrote an Englishman in Louvain to the Gentleman's Magazine , " concerns , in my opinion ...
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... Give me , " he wrote , Give me the Muse whose generous Force Impatient of the Reins Pursues an unattempted Course , Breaks all the Criticks Iron Chains , And bears to Paradise the raptur'd Mind . There Milton dwells : The Mortal sung ...
... Give me , " he wrote , Give me the Muse whose generous Force Impatient of the Reins Pursues an unattempted Course , Breaks all the Criticks Iron Chains , And bears to Paradise the raptur'd Mind . There Milton dwells : The Mortal sung ...
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