Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... 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 opinions which he has expressed respecting the nature of 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 opinions which he has expressed respecting the nature of the ...
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... Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner ...
... Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed in all the Latin poems of Milton the artificial manner ...
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... Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little ...
... Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little ...
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... Paradise Lost , we readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Pa- radise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided , than the superiority of the Paradise Regained to every poem which has since made its ...
... Paradise Lost , we readily admit . But we are sure that the superiority of the Pa- radise Lost to the Paradise Regained is not more decided , than the superiority of the Paradise Regained to every poem which has since made its ...
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... Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurry- ing from couch to couch to mock the wretches with his ...
... Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurry- ing from couch to couch to mock the wretches with his ...
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