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... less frank but more numerous borrowings form too large a subject for discussion here ; suffice it to say that he appears to have been more widely acquainted with the complete body of Milton's poems than any other man of his time . As ...
... less frank but more numerous borrowings form too large a subject for discussion here ; suffice it to say that he appears to have been more widely acquainted with the complete body of Milton's poems than any other man of his time . As ...
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... less eminent an authority than Dryden had said of the epic poets , Homer , Virgil , and Milton , 1 The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third , she join'd the former two . One doubts whether Dryden really meant this ...
... less eminent an authority than Dryden had said of the epic poets , Homer , Virgil , and Milton , 1 The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third , she join'd the former two . One doubts whether Dryden really meant this ...
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... less than idolatry of Milton , and Cowper at least did not have a wide or a representative circle of acquaintances . 5 See pp . 7 , 10 , above . • Autobiography , in Athenaeum , Jan. 12 , 1850 , p . 48 . 7 Memoir appended to F ...
... less than idolatry of Milton , and Cowper at least did not have a wide or a representative circle of acquaintances . 5 See pp . 7 , 10 , above . • Autobiography , in Athenaeum , Jan. 12 , 1850 , p . 48 . 7 Memoir appended to F ...
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... less surprising than the exclamation of the sweet- spirited recluse of Olney , " Oh ! I could thresh his old jacket , till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " 2 Nor was Cowper's wrath short - lived , for thirteen years later he ...
... less surprising than the exclamation of the sweet- spirited recluse of Olney , " Oh ! I could thresh his old jacket , till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " 2 Nor was Cowper's wrath short - lived , for thirteen years later he ...
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... less . " He praises Milton , " flared Miss Seward , " under the eye of the public as Pistol eat his leek under that of Fluellen . After all , he endeavours to do away , collectively , all his reluctant praise of that glorious and ...
... less . " He praises Milton , " flared Miss Seward , " under the eye of the public as Pistol eat his leek under that of Fluellen . After all , he endeavours to do away , collectively , all his reluctant praise of that glorious and ...
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