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... Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius . " 5 Sneyd Davies , Rhapsody to Milton ( w . 1740 ) , in John Whaley's Collection of Poems ( 1745 ) , 182. Cf. Song by Mr. T. ( w . 1767 ) , in J. Nichols's ...
... Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius . " 5 Sneyd Davies , Rhapsody to Milton ( w . 1740 ) , in John Whaley's Collection of Poems ( 1745 ) , 182. Cf. Song by Mr. T. ( w . 1767 ) , in J. Nichols's ...
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... later , when we see the great number of poems modelled upon the shorter pieces and the frequency with which phrases were taken from them , that these utterances by no means exaggerate the feelings of a large part of the public . Of ...
... later , when we see the great number of poems modelled upon the shorter pieces and the frequency with which phrases were taken from them , that these utterances by no means exaggerate the feelings of a large part of the public . Of ...
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... later imitated two of his poems ; he had much to say about Paradise Lost in his Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning , in the Tatler , and in the Spectator before and after the publication of his formal criticism ; he commended ...
... later imitated two of his poems ; he had much to say about Paradise Lost in his Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning , in the Tatler , and in the Spectator before and after the publication of his formal criticism ; he commended ...
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... later regius professor of modern his- tory at Oxford , from writing two pieces of blank verse that are clearly Miltonic . An earlier occupant of the chair of poetry — an easy - chair in those days - was Joseph Trapp , a man so classical ...
... later regius professor of modern his- tory at Oxford , from writing two pieces of blank verse that are clearly Miltonic . An earlier occupant of the chair of poetry — an easy - chair in those days - was Joseph Trapp , a man so classical ...
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... later , but it may be noted here that on a single page of his Winter he praises Pope and declares Milton to be equal to Homer . Another instance of how the Puritan lion and the Augustan lamb ( as the venomous bard would have liked to be ...
... later , but it may be noted here that on a single page of his Winter he praises Pope and declares Milton to be equal to Homer . Another instance of how the Puritan lion and the Augustan lamb ( as the venomous bard would have liked to be ...
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