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... Warton says it is . It is not really a dialogue between Pleasure and Pain , and certainly not a debate between Mirth ... Warton observed , many parallels with Milton's poems . 1 I quote from the poem as it was first printed , in the ...
... Warton says it is . It is not really a dialogue between Pleasure and Pain , and certainly not a debate between Mirth ... Warton observed , many parallels with Milton's poems . 1 I quote from the poem as it was first printed , in the ...
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... Warton calls ' a very splendid figure ' in one of his elegies and in one of his epigrams . Warton , it is true , rather weakened his case by a piece of careless scholarship , for he assumed that Buchanan had another mistress whom he ...
... Warton calls ' a very splendid figure ' in one of his elegies and in one of his epigrams . Warton , it is true , rather weakened his case by a piece of careless scholarship , for he assumed that Buchanan had another mistress whom he ...
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... Warton seems to have no doubts whatever that Milton is apostrophising the nymphs as Muses . ' It is ' , he declares : with great force and felicity of fancy , that Milton , in transferring the classical seats of the Muses to Britain ...
... Warton seems to have no doubts whatever that Milton is apostrophising the nymphs as Muses . ' It is ' , he declares : with great force and felicity of fancy , that Milton , in transferring the classical seats of the Muses to Britain ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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