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... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
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... deviation from nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their desire of exciting admiration . From THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON ( 1608-1674 ) MILTON 20 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
... deviation from nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their desire of exciting admiration . From THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON ( 1608-1674 ) MILTON 20 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
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... admiration of the great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe his Iliad to Congreve , with a magnanimity of which the praise had been com- plete 330 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
... admiration of the great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe his Iliad to Congreve , with a magnanimity of which the praise had been com- plete 330 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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