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In 1794 , when I had barely passed the verge of manhood , I published a small volume of juvenile poems . They were received with a degree of favor , which , young as I was , I well I I knew , was bestowed on them not ...
In 1794 , when I had barely passed the verge of manhood , I published a small volume of juvenile poems . They were received with a degree of favor , which , young as I was , I well I I knew , was bestowed on them not ...
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In the Comus , and earlier Poems of Milton there is a superfluity of double epithets ; while in the Paradise Lost we find very few , in the Paradise Regained scarce any . The same remark holds almost equally true , of the Love's Labour ...
In the Comus , and earlier Poems of Milton there is a superfluity of double epithets ; while in the Paradise Lost we find very few , in the Paradise Regained scarce any . The same remark holds almost equally true , of the Love's Labour ...
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Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a friend , as far as they were censured at all , were charged with the same or similar defects , though I am persuaded not with equal justice : with an EXCESS OF ORNAMENT ...
Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a friend , as far as they were censured at all , were charged with the same or similar defects , though I am persuaded not with equal justice : with an EXCESS OF ORNAMENT ...
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7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
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He habituated me to compare Lucretius , ( in such extracts as I then read ) Terence , and above all the chaster poems of Catullus , not only with the Roman poets of the , so called , silver and brazen ages ; but with even those of the ...
He habituated me to compare Lucretius , ( in such extracts as I then read ) Terence , and above all the chaster poems of Catullus , not only with the Roman poets of the , so called , silver and brazen ages ; but with even those of the ...
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