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... praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such ...
... praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such ...
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... praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the shorter pieces were seldom mentioned , and at no time do they seem to have exerted an influence at all com- parable to that of the epic . Evidence of every kind and from a great variety ...
... praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the shorter pieces were seldom mentioned , and at no time do they seem to have exerted an influence at all com- parable to that of the epic . Evidence of every kind and from a great variety ...
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... praise for the sonnets . 1 Letter to Matthew Smith , c . 1750 , in Prior's Burke ( 5th ed . , 1854 ) , 35 . 2 Letter to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 . 3 Lectures on Rhetoric ( 1783 ) , ii . 375 . 8 △ Observations on English Metre ( w ...
... praise for the sonnets . 1 Letter to Matthew Smith , c . 1750 , in Prior's Burke ( 5th ed . , 1854 ) , 35 . 2 Letter to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 . 3 Lectures on Rhetoric ( 1783 ) , ii . 375 . 8 △ Observations on English Metre ( w ...
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... Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for Lycidas " the same Veneration , and Partiality , which is paid to the most accomplish'd Works of Antiquity , " and in 1756 some who held it " one ...
... Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for Lycidas " the same Veneration , and Partiality , which is paid to the most accomplish'd Works of Antiquity , " and in 1756 some who held it " one ...
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... praise , “ one of the greatest . . . Poems . . . this Age . . . has produced , " is repeated , and Wood- ford adds that if the work had been rimed " it had been so absolute a piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or ...
... praise , “ one of the greatest . . . Poems . . . this Age . . . has produced , " is repeated , and Wood- ford adds that if the work had been rimed " it had been so absolute a piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or ...
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