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Pagina 27
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of im- mortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness dis- played in Milton's ...
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of im- mortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness dis- played in Milton's ...
Pagina 89
... original impropriety , and the subsequent unpopular- ity of the subject , added to the ridiculousness of its first elements , has sunk it into neglect ; but it may be usefully studied , as an example of poetical ratiocina- tion , in ...
... original impropriety , and the subsequent unpopular- ity of the subject , added to the ridiculousness of its first elements , has sunk it into neglect ; but it may be usefully studied , as an example of poetical ratiocina- tion , in ...
Pagina 97
... original fondness of remote conceits seems to have revived . Of the three pieces borrowed from Boccace , Sigis- munda may be defended by the celebrity of the story . Theodore and Honoria , though it contains not much moral , yet ...
... original fondness of remote conceits seems to have revived . Of the three pieces borrowed from Boccace , Sigis- munda may be defended by the celebrity of the story . Theodore and Honoria , though it contains not much moral , yet ...
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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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