Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer with- out falling into ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer with- out falling into ...
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... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
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... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names ...
... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names ...
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... scarcely ever mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , ex- cellent as it is , to ...
... scarcely ever mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , ex- cellent as it is , to ...
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