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... references to Milton for which I am indebted to Mr. Good . I have not , however , specified any of the material used in his book which I had collected before the Studies appeared , — not a little of which , indeed , was in my hands some ...
... references to Milton for which I am indebted to Mr. Good . I have not , however , specified any of the material used in his book which I had collected before the Studies appeared , — not a little of which , indeed , was in my hands some ...
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... reference would be , " See works passim . " Some idea of the unusual attention he was at- tracting may be gained from an examination of a single periodical 1 These figures regarding the number of editions of Spenser and Shakespeare are ...
... reference would be , " See works passim . " Some idea of the unusual attention he was at- tracting may be gained from an examination of a single periodical 1 These figures regarding the number of editions of Spenser and Shakespeare are ...
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... references , see pp . 161-2 below . * John Dennis , Grounds of Criticism in Poetry ( 1704 ) , 54. In the preface to the prose version of Paradise Lost ( 1745 ) it is characterized as " the finest Poem that ever was wrote . " • Life of ...
... references , see pp . 161-2 below . * John Dennis , Grounds of Criticism in Poetry ( 1704 ) , 54. In the preface to the prose version of Paradise Lost ( 1745 ) it is characterized as " the finest Poem that ever was wrote . " • Life of ...
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... references to Milton in Gildon's works contain extravagant praise : see his Miscellaneous Letters and Essays ( 1694 ) , 41–4 ( “ To Mr. T. S. , in Vindication of Mr. Milton's Paradise ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in ...
... references to Milton in Gildon's works contain extravagant praise : see his Miscellaneous Letters and Essays ( 1694 ) , 41–4 ( “ To Mr. T. S. , in Vindication of Mr. Milton's Paradise ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in ...
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... references to the poems that have come to my attention are in a letter from Lord Mon- boddo to Sir George Baker , Oct. 2 , 1782 , and in the Bee for 1793 ( xvi . 276 ) , where Comus is preferred to Paradise Lost ; in the letters of Miss ...
... references to the poems that have come to my attention are in a letter from Lord Mon- boddo to Sir George Baker , Oct. 2 , 1782 , and in the Bee for 1793 ( xvi . 276 ) , where Comus is preferred to Paradise Lost ; in the letters of Miss ...
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