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... poet frequently appeared in a single year , and the average number was probably greater than any maga- zine devoted to him on the tercentenary of his birth . Beyond question , the attitude of the eighteenth century was quite unlike our ...
... poet frequently appeared in a single year , and the average number was probably greater than any maga- zine devoted to him on the tercentenary of his birth . Beyond question , the attitude of the eighteenth century was quite unlike our ...
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... poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such nervous language . . . so orig- inal and noble in its plan and contrivance , and ...
... poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such nervous language . . . so orig- inal and noble in its plan and contrivance , and ...
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... poets is due to Milton . " So , also , does the Lay - Monastery , when it speaks casu- ally of " our great Milton ... poet since has equal'd him in song " ; the " List of Dramatic Poets " appended to Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg ( 1747 ) ...
... poets is due to Milton . " So , also , does the Lay - Monastery , when it speaks casu- ally of " our great Milton ... poet since has equal'd him in song " ; the " List of Dramatic Poets " appended to Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg ( 1747 ) ...
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... Poets , xii . 135 ) , " Like Milton , then , though in more polish'd strains , " or that of A. Betson , who calls Pope " the most perfect Poet we ever had in this Nation " ( Miscellaneous Dissertations , 1751 , p . 86 , and cf. pp . 88 ...
... Poets , xii . 135 ) , " Like Milton , then , though in more polish'd strains , " or that of A. Betson , who calls Pope " the most perfect Poet we ever had in this Nation " ( Miscellaneous Dissertations , 1751 , p . 86 , and cf. pp . 88 ...
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... poets , in three distant ages born . Indeed , if we are familiar with Dryden , we recall his visit to the blind poet and his dramatization of the epic , which he praised cordially , terming it " one of the greatest , most noble , and ...
... poets , in three distant ages born . Indeed , if we are familiar with Dryden , we recall his visit to the blind poet and his dramatization of the epic , which he praised cordially , terming it " one of the greatest , most noble , and ...
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