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... : and , being accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped happily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a great undertaking . In 32 DENHAM . SIR JOHN DENHAM, 1615-1668 P.
... : and , being accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped happily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a great undertaking . In 32 DENHAM . SIR JOHN DENHAM, 1615-1668 P.
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... discovered by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their ...
... discovered by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their ...
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... discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermina- tion . He is supposed about this time to ...
... discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermina- tion . He is supposed about this time to ...
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... discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . " Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate ...
... discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . " Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate ...
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... discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he ...
... discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he ...
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