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... phrases from it , but they used them almost exclusively in their blank verse . Not until we reach Thomas Warton do we find a writer who introduced Miltonic phrases into rimed poetry so frequently as Pope did , and perhaps no one else ...
... phrases from it , but they used them almost exclusively in their blank verse . Not until we reach Thomas Warton do we find a writer who introduced Miltonic phrases into rimed poetry so frequently as Pope did , and perhaps no one else ...
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... phrases from it.3 " Milton ! thee , " he exclaimed , " ah could I reach your strain ! " But there was the trouble , he couldn't . Even if he had wanted to copy the style and versification of Paradise Lost , he could not have freed ...
... phrases from it.3 " Milton ! thee , " he exclaimed , " ah could I reach your strain ! " But there was the trouble , he couldn't . Even if he had wanted to copy the style and versification of Paradise Lost , he could not have freed ...
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... phrases that Wordsworth takes are so inconspicuous as to have escaped the notice of his editors . Such ex- pressions as “ sober certainty , " " teachers . . . Of moral prudence , " " my genial spirits droop , " " the . . . vessel ...
... phrases that Wordsworth takes are so inconspicuous as to have escaped the notice of his editors . Such ex- pressions as “ sober certainty , " " teachers . . . Of moral prudence , " " my genial spirits droop , " " the . . . vessel ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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