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... thought of the day and thronged with persons of all classes , each bearing his gift . In the twentieth century there are few even of Milton's admirers whose feeling for the poet could be characterized as enthusiasm ; yet this seems to ...
... thought of the day and thronged with persons of all classes , each bearing his gift . In the twentieth century there are few even of Milton's admirers whose feeling for the poet could be characterized as enthusiasm ; yet this seems to ...
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... thought " the finest poem in the world " and the author of which he referred to as " this greatest of men , your idol and mine . " 4 This exaggerated estimate was by no means so rare in the " age of reason " as might be expected . It is ...
... thought " the finest poem in the world " and the author of which he referred to as " this greatest of men , your idol and mine . " 4 This exaggerated estimate was by no means so rare in the " age of reason " as might be expected . It is ...
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... Thought , as , per- haps , was never exceeded in any Age or Nation in the World " ( Good , pp . 122-3 ) . Cursory Remarks on English Poets ( 1789 ) , 141. Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius ...
... Thought , as , per- haps , was never exceeded in any Age or Nation in the World " ( Good , pp . 122-3 ) . Cursory Remarks on English Poets ( 1789 ) , 141. Later ( p . 144 ) Neve calls Paradise Lost " the greatest work of human genius ...
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... thought equal to anything he wrote ; and in Goldsmith's Beauties of English Poesy ( 1767 , i . 39 ) , where we are told that " a very judicious critic " thought the octosyllabics gave " an higher idea of Milton's stile in poetry " than ...
... thought equal to anything he wrote ; and in Goldsmith's Beauties of English Poesy ( 1767 , i . 39 ) , where we are told that " a very judicious critic " thought the octosyllabics gave " an higher idea of Milton's stile in poetry " than ...
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... thought his epic " the greatest poem in the world . " Some modestly claimed for it only a preeminence among English works . Gilbert Burnet , for example , who was en- tirely out of sympathy with Milton's political activities , qualified ...
... thought his epic " the greatest poem in the world . " Some modestly claimed for it only a preeminence among English works . Gilbert Burnet , for example , who was en- tirely out of sympathy with Milton's political activities , qualified ...
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