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... hands some years before he began his researches . At the same time , the passages to which his name is attached do not show all my obligations to him ; for many suggestions which it would be impossible to point out definitely , and ...
... hands some years before he began his researches . At the same time , the passages to which his name is attached do not show all my obligations to him ; for many suggestions which it would be impossible to point out definitely , and ...
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... hand in the preparation of a book which exhausts the vocabulary in praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described ...
... hand in the preparation of a book which exhausts the vocabulary in praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described ...
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... hand , the commendations that have been quoted fail to 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 ...
... hand , the commendations that have been quoted fail to 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 ...
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... hand in editing the epic was Thomas Tickell , the poet who was the cause of the memorable quarrel be- tween Addison and Pope ; while still another of Milton's commen- tators , Jonathan Richardson , whose extravagant praise of his favor ...
... hand in editing the epic was Thomas Tickell , the poet who was the cause of the memorable quarrel be- tween Addison and Pope ; while still another of Milton's commen- tators , Jonathan Richardson , whose extravagant praise of his favor ...
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... hand to it . " Another of the Anglican clergymen whom Pope , a Catholic , numbered among his intimate friends was Bishop William Warburton , who became his literary executor . Besides writing a commentary on Paradise Lost ( which he ...
... hand to it . " Another of the Anglican clergymen whom Pope , a Catholic , numbered among his intimate friends was Bishop William Warburton , who became his literary executor . Besides writing a commentary on Paradise Lost ( which he ...
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