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... seen any of the manuscript ( except Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hall , who were good enough to read Part I ) is my friend and assistant , Miss Addie F. Rowe . Since 1916 Miss Rowe has devoted all her time to the book , bringing to it rare ...
... seen any of the manuscript ( except Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hall , who were good enough to read Part I ) is my friend and assistant , Miss Addie F. Rowe . Since 1916 Miss Rowe has devoted all her time to the book , bringing to it rare ...
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... piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or Christian hitherto has seen , it must have remain❜d as the standard to all succeeding Poets . " in which Dr. Warton thought it necessary to prove this 12 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
... piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or Christian hitherto has seen , it must have remain❜d as the standard to all succeeding Poets . " in which Dr. Warton thought it necessary to prove this 12 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
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... seen the dangers of a priori arguments as to what the eighteenth century must have thought , and we remem- ber Addison's Spectator papers , and Dryden's famous distichs , which begin , Three poets , in three distant ages born . Indeed ...
... seen the dangers of a priori arguments as to what the eighteenth century must have thought , and we remem- ber Addison's Spectator papers , and Dryden's famous distichs , which begin , Three poets , in three distant ages born . Indeed ...
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... seen the Eloisa ; and Dryden , Spenser , Thomson , and Prior , were quite unknown to her , even by name ; " she had read " a few 1 The English Theophrastus , or the Manners of the Age ( attributed to Abel Boyer ) , 10 ; pointed out in ...
... seen the Eloisa ; and Dryden , Spenser , Thomson , and Prior , were quite unknown to her , even by name ; " she had read " a few 1 The English Theophrastus , or the Manners of the Age ( attributed to Abel Boyer ) , 10 ; pointed out in ...
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... seen , who chafed under the rules and wearied of the monotony , " the brisk insufficiency and commonness , " of the heroic couplet . Not only is evidence of this to be found in the increased popularity of blank verse and of the lithe ...
... seen , who chafed under the rules and wearied of the monotony , " the brisk insufficiency and commonness , " of the heroic couplet . Not only is evidence of this to be found in the increased popularity of blank verse and of the lithe ...
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