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... writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble ... writers had chiefly in mind 8 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
... writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble ... writers had chiefly in mind 8 THE INFLUENCE OF MILTON.
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Raymond Dexter Havens. ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in mind ; for the modern heresy of exalting the shorter poems at the expense of the longer was scarcely known in an age which , whatever its deficiencies , at least ...
Raymond Dexter Havens. ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in mind ; for the modern heresy of exalting the shorter poems at the expense of the longer was scarcely known in an age which , whatever its deficiencies , at least ...
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... writers of the time owed their first acquaintance with Paradise Lost . Gay's humorous imitation of it , Wine ... writer who would seem to have been least likely to appreciate the epic is Daniel Defoe . Yet so early as 1706 Defoe had ...
... writers of the time owed their first acquaintance with Paradise Lost . Gay's humorous imitation of it , Wine ... writer who would seem to have been least likely to appreciate the epic is Daniel Defoe . Yet so early as 1706 Defoe had ...
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... writers of the time . Shaftesbury's praise of Paradise Lost is worth quoting . " Our most approv'd heroick Poem , " he wrote in 1710 , " has neither the Softness of Language , nor the fashionable Turn of Wit ; but merely solid Thought ...
... writers of the time . Shaftesbury's praise of Paradise Lost is worth quoting . " Our most approv'd heroick Poem , " he wrote in 1710 , " has neither the Softness of Language , nor the fashionable Turn of Wit ; but merely solid Thought ...
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... writer who is commonly ranked among the romanticists ; yet he certainly thought highly of the poetry of his Twickenham ... Writers : for he excells even Homer in the Sublime . But other Critics . . . who can endure no Absurdi- ties , no ...
... writer who is commonly ranked among the romanticists ; yet he certainly thought highly of the poetry of his Twickenham ... Writers : for he excells even Homer in the Sublime . But other Critics . . . who can endure no Absurdi- ties , no ...
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