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... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , 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 immortality , 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 255
... original with accidental no- tions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produces ambiguity in diction and obscurity in books . To this open display of un- adulterated nature it must be ascribed that Homer has fewer ...
... original with accidental no- tions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produces ambiguity in diction and obscurity in books . To this open display of un- adulterated nature it must be ascribed that Homer has fewer ...
Pagina 361
... original , which will likewise often detect strained applications . Between Roman im- ages and English manners there will be an irrecon- cileable dissimilitude , and the works will be gener- ally uncouth and party - coloured ; neither ...
... original , which will likewise often detect strained applications . Between Roman im- ages and English manners there will be an irrecon- cileable dissimilitude , and the works will be gener- ally uncouth and party - coloured ; neither ...
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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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