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... published over a hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies ...
... published over a hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies ...
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... published . It may be added that Samson Agonistes , besides being translated into Greek , was four times adapted for the stage or for music , and that the version made for Handel's oratorio was published at least nine times before 1800 ...
... published . It may be added that Samson Agonistes , besides being translated into Greek , was four times adapted for the stage or for music , and that the version made for Handel's oratorio was published at least nine times before 1800 ...
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... published in 1783 but written much earlier , grants only that " within a certain limited region , he [ Pope ] has been outdone by no Poet " ( ii . 369 ) ; and William Belsham writes ( Essays , 2d ed . , 1799 , ii . 506 ) , “ Though the ...
... published in 1783 but written much earlier , grants only that " within a certain limited region , he [ Pope ] has been outdone by no Poet " ( ii . 369 ) ; and William Belsham writes ( Essays , 2d ed . , 1799 , ii . 506 ) , “ Though the ...
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... published at Oxford in 1731 , contains ten poems that are significantly influenced by Paradise Lost and one by Penseroso . 2 See below , pp . 549-55 , 680-81 . 3 I have collected over twenty passages in which the god Comus is spoken of ...
... published at Oxford in 1731 , contains ten poems that are significantly influenced by Paradise Lost and one by Penseroso . 2 See below , pp . 549-55 , 680-81 . 3 I have collected over twenty passages in which the god Comus is spoken of ...
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... published towards the close of 1749. If Bentley's emendations had called up a storm of protest , Lauder's writings ... publish over his own 1 Sir John Douglas , Milton vindicated from the Charge of Plagiarism ( 1751 ) . Oddly enough ...
... published towards the close of 1749. If Bentley's emendations had called up a storm of protest , Lauder's writings ... publish over his own 1 Sir John Douglas , Milton vindicated from the Charge of Plagiarism ( 1751 ) . Oddly enough ...
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