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... things of literature . The contrary opinion is widely held , to be sure , owing to the attention given to the influence of the 1645 volume upon Gray , Collins , and their contem- poraries ; but it is quite unwarranted . Even lyric poets ...
... things of literature . The contrary opinion is widely held , to be sure , owing to the attention given to the influence of the 1645 volume upon Gray , Collins , and their contem- poraries ; but it is quite unwarranted . Even lyric poets ...
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... things grand and romantic which one associates with Swift make him almost the last person from whom to expect praise of a lofty and imaginative poem in blank verse ; yet he not only de- clared himself " an admirer of Milton , " but ...
... things grand and romantic which one associates with Swift make him almost the last person from whom to expect praise of a lofty and imaginative poem in blank verse ; yet he not only de- clared himself " an admirer of Milton , " but ...
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... Lyttelton wrote three pieces in Mil- tonic blank verse and modelled his best poem upon Lycidas ( see Bibl . I , 1728 , 1762 , c . 1763 , and p . 552 below ) . human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from MILTON'S FAME 19.
... Lyttelton wrote three pieces in Mil- tonic blank verse and modelled his best poem upon Lycidas ( see Bibl . I , 1728 , 1762 , c . 1763 , and p . 552 below ) . human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from MILTON'S FAME 19.
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Raymond Dexter Havens. human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from whom we should expect this praise , yet it is in his Essay upon Epick Poetry ( 1727 ) that the words occur . True , as he later took back most of his commenda- tion ...
Raymond Dexter Havens. human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from whom we should expect this praise , yet it is in his Essay upon Epick Poetry ( 1727 ) that the words occur . True , as he later took back most of his commenda- tion ...
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... thing , this Dryden . " On a later occasion Sappho repeats to some ladies lines from two poets , Sir John Suckling and Milton , who had said " the tenderest things she had ever read " on the subject of love ; and in still another issue ...
... thing , this Dryden . " On a later occasion Sappho repeats to some ladies lines from two poets , Sir John Suckling and Milton , who had said " the tenderest things she had ever read " on the subject of love ; and in still another issue ...
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