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... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who ...
... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who ...
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... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
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... language by what it expresses , as by what it suggests , can be brought to a more exquisite degree of not so much by the ideas which it directly perfection . These poems differ from others conveys , as by other ideas which are con - as ...
... language by what it expresses , as by what it suggests , can be brought to a more exquisite degree of not so much by the ideas which it directly perfection . These poems differ from others conveys , as by other ideas which are con - as ...
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... language . It is as far su perior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido . It was well for Milton that he had here no Euripides to mis- lead him . He understood and ...
... language . It is as far su perior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido . It was well for Milton that he had here no Euripides to mis- lead him . He understood and ...
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... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
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