 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 страници
...sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together, the original being undoubted!/ . one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...poems, which either this age or nation has produced. And though I could not refuse the partiality of my friend, 1 who is pleased to commend 7 Mr. Aubrey,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 страници
...speaks thus highly of Paradise Lost, in the preface to his State of Innocence : " Undoubtedly, it is one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...Poems, which either this age or nation has produced." Again, in the year 1685, in the preface to the 2d vol. of the Miscellanies, he says, " Milton's Paradise... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 страници
...sorry, for my own sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together ; the original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems, which either this age or nation has produced. And though J could not refuse the partiality of my friend, who is pleased to commend me in his verses,... | |
 | 1845 - 816 страници
...of his genins. Thus, in the preface to " The State of Iunocence," he says — " The original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems which either this age or nation has produced." This age! One of the greatest, &c. ! The age of Charles II. ! And what has become of the other great,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 страници
...appeared almost immediately after the death of Miltop, and in this the Paradise Lost is described as " undoubtedly one " of the greatest, most noble, and...most sublime poems, which " either this age or nation hag " produced." Among other earlynotices and commendations of ParadUe Lost, Mr. Todd points out a... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 страници
...appeared almost immediately after the death of Milton, and in this the Paradise Lost is described as " undoubtedly one " of the greatest, most noble, and " most sublime poems, which " cither this age or nation has " produced." Among other early notices and commendations of Paradise... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 страници
...sorry, for my own sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together, the original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems, which either this age or nation has produced" So that, at least by one excellent judge of poetry, the Paradise Lost was immediately and duly appreciated;... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 страници
...sorry, for my own sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together, the original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems, which either this age. or nation has produced" So that, at least by one excellent judge of poetry, the Paradise Lost was immediately and duly appreciated... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 страници
...eminence, even if he had not happened, as was the case, to be personally known to the author. • self not assured us, in the prefatory essay to his own...Dennis has left a curious record upon this subject : — " Dry den," he observes, " in his Preface before the ' State of In. nocence,' appears to have... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 694 страници
...State of Innocence, published soon after Milton's death, to speak of its original, Paradise Lost, as " undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems which either this age or nation has produced." Paradise 3i. The neglect which Paradise Lost never experienced, seems to have been long the lot of... | |
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... one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. 
