The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... poets is due to Milton ; and as I have drawn more quotations out of him than from any other , I shall enter into a regular criticism upon his Paradise Lost , which I shall publish every Saturday , until I have given my thoughts upon that ...
... poets is due to Milton ; and as I have drawn more quotations out of him than from any other , I shall enter into a regular criticism upon his Paradise Lost , which I shall publish every Saturday , until I have given my thoughts upon that ...
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... poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry : and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they ad- vance no more to the diminution of it , than if they ...
... poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry : and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they ad- vance no more to the diminution of it , than if they ...
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... poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those great actions , which preceded in point ...
... poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those great actions , which preceded in point ...
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James Ferguson. the like art in his poem on the fall of man , has re- lated the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies . Besides the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem ...
James Ferguson. the like art in his poem on the fall of man , has re- lated the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies . Besides the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem ...
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... poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , should be great . I will not presume to say , that the book of games in the Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this ...
... poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , should be great . I will not presume to say , that the book of games in the Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this ...
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