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... hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies , for Spenser's ...
... hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies , for Spenser's ...
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... hundred years later . We have also seen that Atterbury wrote to Pope that he could almost agree with Barrow's verses , Romans and Grecians yield the bays , Yield , all ye bards of old or modern days ! Who reads this nobler work will own ...
... hundred years later . We have also seen that Atterbury wrote to Pope that he could almost agree with Barrow's verses , Romans and Grecians yield the bays , Yield , all ye bards of old or modern days ! Who reads this nobler work will own ...
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... hundreds of writers cannot be questioned . Milton must have been read , for imitations of his style and diction and borrowings from his phraseology are scattered through eight- eenth - century literature Thick as autumnal leaves that ...
... hundreds of writers cannot be questioned . Milton must have been read , for imitations of his style and diction and borrowings from his phraseology are scattered through eight- eenth - century literature Thick as autumnal leaves that ...
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... hundred years later , that blank verse was another bow of Ulysses , " an instrument which few know how to touch . " 4 Realization of the difficulties of the measure came late , however . Adam Smith expressed the common opinion when he ...
... hundred years later , that blank verse was another bow of Ulysses , " an instrument which few know how to touch . " 4 Realization of the difficulties of the measure came late , however . Adam Smith expressed the common opinion when he ...
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... hundred years , our vocabulary has come to be far richer than theirs and actually nearer to that of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . In 1742 , for example , Gray mentions " beverage , " " mood , " " array , " " way- ward ...
... hundred years , our vocabulary has come to be far richer than theirs and actually nearer to that of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . In 1742 , for example , Gray mentions " beverage , " " mood , " " array , " " way- ward ...
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