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... LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of ...
... LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of ...
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... Lost little opportun- ity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending the ...
... Lost little opportun- ity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending the ...
Pagina 339
... lost ; and he had before him not only what his own meditations sug- gested , but what he had found in other writers , that might be accommodated to his present purpose . These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied ...
... lost ; and he had before him not only what his own meditations sug- gested , but what he had found in other writers , that might be accommodated to his present purpose . These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied ...
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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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