English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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... persons of a second magnitude , nay , some so very near , so almost equal to the first , that greatness may be opposed to greatness , and all the persons be made considerable , not only by their quality , but their action . ' Tis ...
... persons of a second magnitude , nay , some so very near , so almost equal to the first , that greatness may be opposed to greatness , and all the persons be made considerable , not only by their quality , but their action . ' Tis ...
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... persons to judge severely ; but if they would produce to public view ten or twelve pieces of this nature , they would perhaps give more latitude to the rules than I have done , when , by experience , they have known how much we are ...
... persons to judge severely ; but if they would produce to public view ten or twelve pieces of this nature , they would perhaps give more latitude to the rules than I have done , when , by experience , they have known how much we are ...
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... persons who were so nearly related to the people for whom they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Aeneas the remote ... persons . Milton's poem is admirable in this respect , since it is impossible for any of its readers , whatever ...
... persons who were so nearly related to the people for whom they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Aeneas the remote ... persons . Milton's poem is admirable in this respect , since it is impossible for any of its readers , whatever ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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