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... the age : but of those , whose ability , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my 1 1 STEIN with translations and extracts from my author , PREFACE .
... the age : but of those , whose ability , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my 1 1 STEIN with translations and extracts from my author , PREFACE .
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... of their predecessors , have pretended to prove , from some vague expressions in one of his own poems , that the slander , though completely overthrown at the time of its first production , was not altogether unsupported by truth .
... of their predecessors , have pretended to prove , from some vague expressions in one of his own poems , that the slander , though completely overthrown at the time of its first production , was not altogether unsupported by truth .
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... may be sorry that the youthful poet did not occasionally follow some model of more nerve than the diffuse and languid Ovid . On the whole , however , these productions must be regarded as possessing rare and pre - eminent merit .
... may be sorry that the youthful poet did not occasionally follow some model of more nerve than the diffuse and languid Ovid . On the whole , however , these productions must be regarded as possessing rare and pre - eminent merit .
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To this favoured period of our author's life are we indebted for some of the most exquisite productions of his genius . The Comus , in 1634 , and the Lycidas , in 1637 , were unquestionably written at Horton ; and there is the strongest ...
To this favoured period of our author's life are we indebted for some of the most exquisite productions of his genius . The Comus , in 1634 , and the Lycidas , in 1637 , were unquestionably written at Horton ; and there is the strongest ...
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This exquisite piece has been pronounced to be undramatic ; the mode in which its story is opened , has been censured as absurd , and its speeches as too long , too nicely balanced , and too “ tediously ” moral for the production of ...
This exquisite piece has been pronounced to be undramatic ; the mode in which its story is opened , has been censured as absurd , and its speeches as too long , too nicely balanced , and too “ tediously ” moral for the production of ...
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| Title | The Life of John Milton |
| Author | Charles Symmons |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Nichols and Son, 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2011 |
| Length | 566 pages |
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