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... written nothing else , " said another , apropos of the octosyllabics , he " has displayed such exten- sive powers of imagination , as would have given him a place among the foremost of the sons of Phoebus . " A similar opinion had been ...
... written nothing else , " said another , apropos of the octosyllabics , he " has displayed such exten- sive powers of imagination , as would have given him a place among the foremost of the sons of Phoebus . " A similar opinion had been ...
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... written about 1700 ( ib . pp . xxvii , xxxi n . ) . In Jure Divino ( 1706 , book vii , p . 14 n . ) Defoe praised the ' Masterly Genius ' displayed in Paradise Lost , and wrote , “ Milton's Pandemonium , is allow'd to be the deepest ...
... written about 1700 ( ib . pp . xxvii , xxxi n . ) . In Jure Divino ( 1706 , book vii , p . 14 n . ) Defoe praised the ' Masterly Genius ' displayed in Paradise Lost , and wrote , “ Milton's Pandemonium , is allow'd to be the deepest ...
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... written . " 4 What makes his extended examination of the poem particularly significant in the present connection is the fact that it was written by the leading neo - classic critic of the time and was addressed to the neo - classicists ...
... written . " 4 What makes his extended examination of the poem particularly significant in the present connection is the fact that it was written by the leading neo - classic critic of the time and was addressed to the neo - classicists ...
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... writing two pieces of blank verse that are clearly Miltonic . An earlier occupant of the chair of poetry — an easy ... written since Roman days . Paradise Lost , how- ever , seemed to him a marked exception , for he said of it : " Si ...
... writing two pieces of blank verse that are clearly Miltonic . An earlier occupant of the chair of poetry — an easy ... written since Roman days . Paradise Lost , how- ever , seemed to him a marked exception , for he said of it : " Si ...
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... written anything else . Of Pope , she had only 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 ...
... written anything else . Of Pope , she had only 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 ...
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