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Page 67
... give up the most obvious of 1 " Introduction to the Sonnets , " Poems , 2d ed . , 1797 , p . 73. Cf. Crit . Rev. , new arr . , xxi . 151 ( 1797 ) , where contemporary sonnets were assailed for not using " the genuine language of simple ...
... give up the most obvious of 1 " Introduction to the Sonnets , " Poems , 2d ed . , 1797 , p . 73. Cf. Crit . Rev. , new arr . , xxi . 151 ( 1797 ) , where contemporary sonnets were assailed for not using " the genuine language of simple ...
Page 155
... give it range , " " ardours " of soul , " ardent with gems , " planets " without error rove , " the " tacit doctrine " of God's works , " erect thine eye , " " night's radiant scale " ( ladder ) .1 Like them , too , he makes new words ...
... give it range , " " ardours " of soul , " ardent with gems , " planets " without error rove , " the " tacit doctrine " of God's works , " erect thine eye , " " night's radiant scale " ( ladder ) .1 Like them , too , he makes new words ...
Page 172
... give the effect of the Greek ; but in reality they produce an impression en- tirely unlike Homer's by destroying his simple directness , natural- ness , and rapidity.1 The explanation is probably to be found in Cowper's desire to give ...
... give the effect of the Greek ; but in reality they produce an impression en- tirely unlike Homer's by destroying his simple directness , natural- ness , and rapidity.1 The explanation is probably to be found in Cowper's desire to give ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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