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... never been a popular poet as Shakespeare is popular , never perhaps even as Scott is popular , or as Byron was in his day and generation . " Nor do we question Mr. Saintsbury's dictum that , although the eighteenth century " did not ...
... never been a popular poet as Shakespeare is popular , never perhaps even as Scott is popular , or as Byron was in his day and generation . " Nor do we question Mr. Saintsbury's dictum that , although the eighteenth century " did not ...
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... never exceeded in any Age or Nation in the World " ( Good , pp . 122-3 ) . Cursory Remarks on English Poets ( 1789 ) , 141. Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius . " 5 Sneyd Davies , Rhapsody to ...
... never exceeded in any Age or Nation in the World " ( Good , pp . 122-3 ) . Cursory Remarks on English Poets ( 1789 ) , 141. Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius . " 5 Sneyd Davies , Rhapsody to ...
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... never exalted him to the rank of the greatest poet , he has often been stiled the best versifier in the English language . " Belsham allows him to be " the most polished and correct versifier , " but not the one " affording the highest ...
... never exalted him to the rank of the greatest poet , he has often been stiled the best versifier in the English language . " Belsham allows him to be " the most polished and correct versifier , " but not the one " affording the highest ...
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... never have meant it ; but since he did say it , and may have said something of the kind often while he was in England , there is no escaping the significance or the influence of such a tribute from an eminent foreign poet and critic ...
... never have meant it ; but since he did say it , and may have said something of the kind often while he was in England , there is no escaping the significance or the influence of such a tribute from an eminent foreign poet and critic ...
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... never sung ; but Benjamin Stillingfleet's , set to music by Handel's pupil and assistant J. C. Smith , was printed and twice performed in 1760. Haydn , as Mr. Alwin Thaler points out in his Milton in the Theatre ( Univ . of North ...
... never sung ; but Benjamin Stillingfleet's , set to music by Handel's pupil and assistant J. C. Smith , was printed and twice performed in 1760. Haydn , as Mr. Alwin Thaler points out in his Milton in the Theatre ( Univ . of North ...
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