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... earlier Cibber had affirmed that as a result of the Spectator papers " it became even unfashion- able not to have read " Milton . " Warburton also , according to 1 Dodsley's Museum ( 1747 ) , iii . 284 . To Health , in Odes ( 1746 ) ...
... earlier Cibber had affirmed that as a result of the Spectator papers " it became even unfashion- able not to have read " Milton . " Warburton also , according to 1 Dodsley's Museum ( 1747 ) , iii . 284 . To Health , in Odes ( 1746 ) ...
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... earlier verse his readers knew little and cared less . What struck them as particularly different from their own work was the daring wildness of the epic . It was " read by all sorts of people . . . for its extrava- gance , " we are ...
... earlier verse his readers knew little and cared less . What struck them as particularly different from their own work was the daring wildness of the epic . It was " read by all sorts of people . . . for its extrava- gance , " we are ...
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... earlier poem , that it was less successful : see Crit . Rev. , xlv . 74 ( Good , p . 218 n . ) 2 " Milton , " in Lives ( ed . Hill ) , i . 156 . 3 Francis Blackburne , Memoirs of Hollis ( 1780 ) , 365-71 ; 107 ; 73 , 126 , 127-8 , 154 ...
... earlier poem , that it was less successful : see Crit . Rev. , xlv . 74 ( Good , p . 218 n . ) 2 " Milton , " in Lives ( ed . Hill ) , i . 156 . 3 Francis Blackburne , Memoirs of Hollis ( 1780 ) , 365-71 ; 107 ; 73 , 126 , 127-8 , 154 ...
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... earlier and more interesting of these is in the preface to Prior's Solomon ( 1718 ) , where we read : " Heroic [ measure ] with continued Rhime , as Donne and his Contemporaries used it , carrying the Sense of one Verse most commonly ...
... earlier and more interesting of these is in the preface to Prior's Solomon ( 1718 ) , where we read : " Heroic [ measure ] with continued Rhime , as Donne and his Contemporaries used it , carrying the Sense of one Verse most commonly ...
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... earlier writers who are familiar enough to us , poets who have furnished inspiration and guidance to nearly every singer from Keats to Bridges , were in the eighteenth century either unknown or unregarded . Aside from Sidney , Spenser ...
... earlier writers who are familiar enough to us , poets who have furnished inspiration and guidance to nearly every singer from Keats to Bridges , were in the eighteenth century either unknown or unregarded . Aside from Sidney , Spenser ...
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