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Page 61
... effect an unpardonable offence against the harmony of the verse . I have occasionally hinted that Milton's Latin prose composition is not altogether faultless : but its faults are few and trivial ; and to dwell on them would expend time ...
... effect an unpardonable offence against the harmony of the verse . I have occasionally hinted that Milton's Latin prose composition is not altogether faultless : but its faults are few and trivial ; and to dwell on them would expend time ...
Page 78
... effect . If he occa- sionally indulges in those conceits which ble- mished all the poetry of that age , his thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes Our author's niece , a daughter of his sister , Mrs. Philips , tender ...
... effect . If he occa- sionally indulges in those conceits which ble- mished all the poetry of that age , his thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes Our author's niece , a daughter of his sister , Mrs. Philips , tender ...
Page 85
... effects of love upon his bosom , must be admitted to very high and distinguished praise . The object , as it may be proper to mention , of the love , which he has thus commemorated , was a lady whom he accidentally saw in one of the ...
... effects of love upon his bosom , must be admitted to very high and distinguished praise . The object , as it may be proper to mention , of the love , which he has thus commemorated , was a lady whom he accidentally saw in one of the ...
Page 103
... effect . If we admit in the " Tempest , " or the " Midsummer's Night's Dream , " a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing which ...
... effect . If we admit in the " Tempest , " or the " Midsummer's Night's Dream , " a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing which ...
Page 106
... effect of the Lady's singing with a different allusion , is not liable to any objection , and is altogether admirable ; At last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose , like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes , And stole upon the air ...
... effect of the Lady's singing with a different allusion , is not liable to any objection , and is altogether admirable ; At last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose , like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes , And stole upon the air ...
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