Reinterpretations: Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson |
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Page 17
... kind of ' sleep ' or ' dreaming ' : Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream ; ( L'Allegro , 129–30 ) ... Entice the dewy - feathered Sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy ...
... kind of ' sleep ' or ' dreaming ' : Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream ; ( L'Allegro , 129–30 ) ... Entice the dewy - feathered Sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy ...
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... kind of résumé of modes Pope had perfected while " imitating " Dryden and Horace ' , Brower is content to explain its character as an apologia in the following general terms : ' Like the best of Horace's Epistles , it is the kind of ...
... kind of résumé of modes Pope had perfected while " imitating " Dryden and Horace ' , Brower is content to explain its character as an apologia in the following general terms : ' Like the best of Horace's Epistles , it is the kind of ...
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... kind of difference that presented a problem for the Augustan ' translator ' ; as Johnson was to observe in his later Life of Pope : ' Between Roman images and English manners there will be an irreconcilable dissimilitude , and the work ...
... kind of difference that presented a problem for the Augustan ' translator ' ; as Johnson was to observe in his later Life of Pope : ' Between Roman images and English manners there will be an irreconcilable dissimilitude , and the work ...
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Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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