Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pages This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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... sentiments , there are none who could have risen up to the greatness of others . Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments . Mil- ton shines likewise very much in this particular : nor must we omit one ...
... sentiments , there are none who could have risen up to the greatness of others . Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments . Mil- ton shines likewise very much in this particular : nor must we omit one ...
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... sentiments he triumphs over all the poets both modern and ancient , Homer only excepted . It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas , than those which he has laid together in his first , second ...
... sentiments he triumphs over all the poets both modern and ancient , Homer only excepted . It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas , than those which he has laid together in his first , second ...
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... sentiments as are unnatural or affected , but also such as are mean and vulgar . Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius , by the homeliness of some of his sentiments . But , as I have ...
... sentiments as are unnatural or affected , but also such as are mean and vulgar . Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius , by the homeliness of some of his sentiments . But , as I have ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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