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... language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any ...
... language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any ...
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... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
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... language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives , derived from substantives , the termina- tion of participles ; such as the ...
... language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives , derived from substantives , the termina- tion of participles ; such as the ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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