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... sweet , as Milton strong . ' Lady Mary Montagu , with whom Pope flirted and quarrelled , at- tacked " the thraldom of monastic rhymes " and praised " the beau- ties of each living page " of Milton's poem . " " The horrid Discord of ...
... sweet , as Milton strong . ' Lady Mary Montagu , with whom Pope flirted and quarrelled , at- tacked " the thraldom of monastic rhymes " and praised " the beau- ties of each living page " of Milton's poem . " " The horrid Discord of ...
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... sweet , beyond compare , Is thine . Thomas Green remarked in 1800 that the allegory of Sin and Death " renders the grandest passages in Homer and Virgil comparatively feeble and dwarfish ” ( Diary of a Lover of Literature , Ipswich ...
... sweet , beyond compare , Is thine . Thomas Green remarked in 1800 that the allegory of Sin and Death " renders the grandest passages in Homer and Virgil comparatively feeble and dwarfish ” ( Diary of a Lover of Literature , Ipswich ...
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... sweet- spirited recluse of Olney , " Oh ! I could thresh his old jacket , till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " 2 Nor was Cowper's wrath short - lived , for thirteen years later he refers to " that literary cos- sack's ...
... sweet- spirited recluse of Olney , " Oh ! I could thresh his old jacket , till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " 2 Nor was Cowper's wrath short - lived , for thirteen years later he refers to " that literary cos- sack's ...
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... sweet Rhime , what a Poem had it been ! " * xxix . 435 ( misunderstood by Good , p . 230 ) . Yet in 1800 the same review said that a translator of Lucretius " perhaps would have acted more wisely in employing blank verse . . . . It is ...
... sweet Rhime , what a Poem had it been ! " * xxix . 435 ( misunderstood by Good , p . 230 ) . Yet in 1800 the same review said that a translator of Lucretius " perhaps would have acted more wisely in employing blank verse . . . . It is ...
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... sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took . Where eldest Night And Chaos , ancestors of Nature ...
... sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took . Where eldest Night And Chaos , ancestors of Nature ...
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