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... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
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... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse ...
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse ...
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... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
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Milton | 15 |
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