Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners . His next work was , The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , by Mr. John Milton , 1642. In this book he discovers , not with ostentatious ...
... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners . His next work was , The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , by Mr. John Milton , 1642. In this book he discovers , not with ostentatious ...
Page 96
Samuel Johnson. Walk , leading to Bunhill Fields ; the mention of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habita- tions . He lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by Paradise Lost . Whence he drew ...
Samuel Johnson. Walk , leading to Bunhill Fields ; the mention of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habita- tions . He lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by Paradise Lost . Whence he drew ...
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... mention of Arion at the beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the Cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The poem , however , is such as may be justly praised , without much allowance for the state of ...
... mention of Arion at the beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the Cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The poem , however , is such as may be justly praised , without much allowance for the state of ...
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