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... wrote , " As to the Paradise Lost . . . I have never read it as a whole , and I doubt whether I have known any other person who has ever done so . " These words carry weight , for their author was a gentleman of fine culture and of ...
... wrote , " As to the Paradise Lost . . . I have never read it as a whole , and I doubt whether I have known any other person who has ever done so . " These words carry weight , for their author was a gentleman of fine culture and of ...
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... wrote . " • Life of Milton , prefixed to Samson Agonistes ( Bell's British Theatre , 1797 , vol . xxxiv ) , p . viii . 7 Extract from P. L. ( 1791 ) , 3. James Paterson , in his Complete Commentary on P. L. ( 1744 , p . i ) , starts ...
... wrote . " • Life of Milton , prefixed to Samson Agonistes ( Bell's British Theatre , 1797 , vol . xxxiv ) , p . viii . 7 Extract from P. L. ( 1791 ) , 3. James Paterson , in his Complete Commentary on P. L. ( 1744 , p . i ) , starts ...
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... wrote in 1710 , " has neither the Softness of Language , nor the fashionable Turn of Wit ; but merely solid Thought , strong Reasoning , noble Passion , and a continu'd Thred of moral Doctrine , Piety , and Virtue to recommend it ...
... wrote in 1710 , " has neither the Softness of Language , nor the fashionable Turn of Wit ; but merely solid Thought , strong Reasoning , noble Passion , and a continu'd Thred of moral Doctrine , Piety , and Virtue to recommend it ...
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... wrote a life of Milton , and ' amended the punctuation ' of his principal work.1 Another classicist who had a hand in editing the epic was Thomas Tickell , the poet who was the cause of the memorable quarrel be- tween Addison and Pope ...
... wrote a life of Milton , and ' amended the punctuation ' of his principal work.1 Another classicist who had a hand in editing the epic was Thomas Tickell , the poet who was the cause of the memorable quarrel be- tween Addison and Pope ...
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... wrote to Pope that he could almost agree with Barrow's verses , Romans and Grecians yield the bays , Yield , all ye bards of old or modern days ! Who reads this nobler work will own Homer sung frogs , and Virgil gnats alone.3 It is to ...
... wrote to Pope that he could almost agree with Barrow's verses , Romans and Grecians yield the bays , Yield , all ye bards of old or modern days ! Who reads this nobler work will own Homer sung frogs , and Virgil gnats alone.3 It is to ...
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