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... living , the juvenile poems had been de- clared " incomparable " ; before 1728 Comus was called " the best [ masque ] ever written . . . in the Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for ...
... living , the juvenile poems had been de- clared " incomparable " ; before 1728 Comus was called " the best [ masque ] ever written . . . in the Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for ...
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... living page " of Milton's poem . " " The horrid Discord of jingling Rhyme " is also condemned in the celebrated Characteristics of the Earl of Shaftesbury , which strongly influenced Pope and many other writers of the time ...
... living page " of Milton's poem . " " The horrid Discord of jingling Rhyme " is also condemned in the celebrated Characteristics of the Earl of Shaftesbury , which strongly influenced Pope and many other writers of the time ...
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... living learned grammar by parsing Paradise Lost . 66 • Potter , Art of Criticism , 13 ; Cowper to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 , and cf. pp . 7 , 10 , above . " Milton is my favourite , ” wrote the profligate Lord Lyttelton in the ...
... living learned grammar by parsing Paradise Lost . 66 • Potter , Art of Criticism , 13 ; Cowper to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 , and cf. pp . 7 , 10 , above . " Milton is my favourite , ” wrote the profligate Lord Lyttelton in the ...
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... living at this hour . " " Many circumstances , " he declared , " at present loudly call upon us to exert ourselves . Venality and corruption have well - nigh extin- guished all principles of Liberty . . . . One remedy for these evils ...
... living at this hour . " " Many circumstances , " he declared , " at present loudly call upon us to exert ourselves . Venality and corruption have well - nigh extin- guished all principles of Liberty . . . . One remedy for these evils ...
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... living to - day who really know any non - dramatic - 1 For a list of blank - verse poems published before Paradise Lost , with some account of them , see J. P. Collier's Poetical Decameron ( 1820 ) , i . 54-8 , 88–145 , ii . 231 . blank ...
... living to - day who really know any non - dramatic - 1 For a list of blank - verse poems published before Paradise Lost , with some account of them , see J. P. Collier's Poetical Decameron ( 1820 ) , i . 54-8 , 88–145 , ii . 231 . blank ...
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