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... quoted fail to give any adequate conception of the widespread , enthusiastic admiration which the poems aroused . Regarding Paradise Lost we have seen that a remarkable unanim- ity of opinion prevailed . There must have been those who ...
... quoted fail to give any adequate conception of the widespread , enthusiastic admiration which the poems aroused . Regarding Paradise Lost we have seen that a remarkable unanim- ity of opinion prevailed . There must have been those who ...
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... ( 1694 ) ; A. Betson's Miscellaneous Dis- sertations ( 1751 ) , 86-90 ; Defoe's remark quoted on p . 15 below ; and the passage from Collins , p . 454 below . for poetry in every way so unlike their own as MILTON'S FAME 13.
... ( 1694 ) ; A. Betson's Miscellaneous Dis- sertations ( 1751 ) , 86-90 ; Defoe's remark quoted on p . 15 below ; and the passage from Collins , p . 454 below . for poetry in every way so unlike their own as MILTON'S FAME 13.
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... quoted is rendered thus : " If Milton did not write an Heroic Poem , properly so call'd , yet he certainly wrote an excellent one , such as deserves , or rather is above all Commendation . He is no slavish imitator of Homer and Virgil ...
... quoted is rendered thus : " If Milton did not write an Heroic Poem , properly so call'd , yet he certainly wrote an excellent one , such as deserves , or rather is above all Commendation . He is no slavish imitator of Homer and Virgil ...
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... of Milton quoted above ( page 12 ) from the Lay - Monastery , of which Hughes was one of the editors . For his imitations , see pp . 442-3 below . begin to appear until its author had by his satires 18 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
... of Milton quoted above ( page 12 ) from the Lay - Monastery , of which Hughes was one of the editors . For his imitations , see pp . 442-3 below . begin to appear until its author had by his satires 18 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
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... quoted from . The author of The Seasons is another writer who is commonly ranked among the romanticists ; yet he certainly thought highly of the poetry of his Twickenham neighbor , with whose circle he was intimate . Thom- son's ...
... quoted from . The author of The Seasons is another writer who is commonly ranked among the romanticists ; yet he certainly thought highly of the poetry of his Twickenham neighbor , with whose circle he was intimate . Thom- son's ...
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