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... least in diction , and accordingly may have thought that borrowing from him was like taking words from the dictionary . The similarity between his own exalted , orotund passages and those of Paradise Lost he undoubtedly felt and felt ...
... least in diction , and accordingly may have thought that borrowing from him was like taking words from the dictionary . The similarity between his own exalted , orotund passages and those of Paradise Lost he undoubtedly felt and felt ...
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... least part of Britain Discovered , " an heroic poem in twelve books " ; Richard Cumberland wrote part of an epic on India soon after he left college , and Landor composed the Phocaeans while at college ; Henry Milman began Samor at Eton ...
... least part of Britain Discovered , " an heroic poem in twelve books " ; Richard Cumberland wrote part of an epic on India soon after he left college , and Landor composed the Phocaeans while at college ; Henry Milman began Samor at Eton ...
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... least a hundred years in print . This neglect is the more surpris- ing because by 1740 the pieces had appeared in at least ten editions of Milton's complete poems , 1 and had been published by themselves twice in English ( 1645 , 1673 ) ...
... least a hundred years in print . This neglect is the more surpris- ing because by 1740 the pieces had appeared in at least ten editions of Milton's complete poems , 1 and had been published by themselves twice in English ( 1645 , 1673 ) ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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