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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 we read a book of universal knowl- edge . But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up ...
... Lost we read a book of universal knowl- edge . But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up ...
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... Lost , one to the " defects . " Until Johnson's Milton , Addison was regarded as the great critic of Paradise Lost , and the Queen Anne writer's treatment of the great poem is indeed more critically perceptive than is usually presumed ...
... Lost , one to the " defects . " Until Johnson's Milton , Addison was regarded as the great critic of Paradise Lost , and the Queen Anne writer's treatment of the great poem is indeed more critically perceptive than is usually presumed ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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