...opera out of Paradise Lost (The State of Innocence), but said in his preface that the original was undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems which either this age or nation has produced. The third edition appeared in 1678, and Simmons, in 1680, paid Milton's widow the 5/. he owed her since...

...he consummated his fame by the mighty epic of " Paradise Lost," which is, in the words of Dryden, " undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either the age or the nation produced." John Bunyan was of ignoble birth, and received no education, but his...

...for my own sake, " that any one should take the pains to compare them lo" gether : the original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, " most noble, and...poems which either this age " or nation has produced." These words, from one who confessed to the critic Dennis twenty years afterwards that at the time he...

...calibre, Marvell and Dryden ; the latter of whom declared it, shortly after Hilton's death, to be ' undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...sublime poems, which either this age or nation has produced.'f During the next period the enlightened criticism of Addison assisted in popularising it,...

...sorry, for my own sake, that anyone ihould 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 I could not refuse the partiality of my friend, who is pleased to commend me in his verses,...

...preface to his State of Innocence he gives us his deliberate opinion of Paradise Lost — that it is "one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...poems which either this age or nation has produced." Let us take a last look at the aged poet in his humble house in Artillery Walk, near Bunhill Fields....

...preface to his State of Innocence he gives us his deliberate opinion of Paradise Lost — that it is "one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...poems which either this age or nation has produced." Let us take a last look at the aged poet in his humble house in Artillery Walk, near Bunhill Fields....

...for Heroic Poetry and Poetic Licence," in which Dryden refers to Milton's immortal epic as " being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most...poems which either this age or nation has produced." A very favourable specimen of Dryden's treatment of his subject is furnished by Lucifer's soliloquy...

...RYMER (1678). A rough, unhewn fellow, that a man must sweat to read him. — PRIOR AND MONTAGU (1687). One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either the age or nation has produced. — JOHN DRYDEN (1675). In " Paradise Lost " we feel as if we were...

...renown the slowness of growth with the permanency of the oak. Milton's merit, however, had not escaped the eye of Dryden. He was acquainted with the author,...could have induced him, holding this opinion, " to g_ild pure gold, and set a perfume on the violet." Dennis has left a curious record upon this subject:...