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... similar themes in blank verse he followed Thomson . 99 1 In the second place , most eighteenth - century writers lacked the skill to transfer the Miltonic prosody — which few of them really understood - to the couplet . To us this seems ...
... similar themes in blank verse he followed Thomson . 99 1 In the second place , most eighteenth - century writers lacked the skill to transfer the Miltonic prosody — which few of them really understood - to the couplet . To us this seems ...
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... similar lines in the Night Thoughts . Yet there can be no question of Young's familiarity with Paradise Lost or of his willingness to borrow phrases from it.3 " Milton ! thee , " he exclaimed , " ah could I reach your strain ! " But ...
... similar lines in the Night Thoughts . Yet there can be no question of Young's familiarity with Paradise Lost or of his willingness to borrow phrases from it.3 " Milton ! thee , " he exclaimed , " ah could I reach your strain ! " But ...
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... similar views but greater powers . To be sure , though he may not have known how numerous they were , he must have been aware of the many phrases and of some of the more unusual words that he borrowed ; but such things would not have ...
... similar views but greater powers . To be sure , though he may not have known how numerous they were , he must have been aware of the many phrases and of some of the more unusual words that he borrowed ; but such things would not have ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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