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... borrowings form too large a subject for discussion here ; suffice it to say that he appears to have been more widely acquainted with the complete body of Milton's poems than any other man of his time . As for " Mat " Prior , one would ...
... borrowings form too large a subject for discussion here ; suffice it to say that he appears to have been more widely acquainted with the complete body of Milton's poems than any other man of his time . As for " Mat " Prior , one would ...
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... borrowings from his phraseology are scattered through eight- eenth - century literature Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa . In fact , so many persons really knew the pieces that it was probably not safe to ...
... borrowings from his phraseology are scattered through eight- eenth - century literature Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa . In fact , so many persons really knew the pieces that it was probably not safe to ...
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... borrowings . The few I have noticed are dubious . On the whole , however , when it is remembered that the epics are in rime , that they began to appear only twenty - eight years after the publica- tion of Paradise Lost , and that they ...
... borrowings . The few I have noticed are dubious . On the whole , however , when it is remembered that the epics are in rime , that they began to appear only twenty - eight years after the publica- tion of Paradise Lost , and that they ...
Page 94
... borrowings from Milton are : " swinging slow with hoarse and sullen Roar " ( Blenheim , in Works , 1718 , i . 160 , cf. Penseroso , 76 ) ; " Italia ! Ah how fall'n , how chang'd from her , Who " ( ib . 176 , cf. P. L. , i . 84-5 ) ...
... borrowings from Milton are : " swinging slow with hoarse and sullen Roar " ( Blenheim , in Works , 1718 , i . 160 , cf. Penseroso , 76 ) ; " Italia ! Ah how fall'n , how chang'd from her , Who " ( ib . 176 , cf. P. L. , i . 84-5 ) ...
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... borrowings at times bring it close to its model.1 It is nearest " Mil- ton's stile " in the following passage : ' Tis said , that thunder - struck Enceladus Groveling beneath the incumbent mountain's weight , Lies stretched supine ...
... borrowings at times bring it close to its model.1 It is nearest " Mil- ton's stile " in the following passage : ' Tis said , that thunder - struck Enceladus Groveling beneath the incumbent mountain's weight , Lies stretched supine ...
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adjectives admired Aeneid Allegro ANON appeared bard beauty blank verse borrowings Coleridge Comus couplet Cowper Crit Critical death Della Cruscans descriptive edition eighteenth century Elizabethan English Poets epic Essay expression Gray Grongar Hill heaven heroic heroic couplet Hill Homer Hymn Hyperion Iliad imitation influence inversions James John Joseph Warton Keats language later Latin letter lines Lycidas lyric meter Milton Miltonic blank verse minor poems Miscellany Monody Muse nature Night Thoughts o'er octosyllabics Odyssey Oxford P. L. ii P. L. vii Paradise Lost passages Penseroso phrases pieces Poetical poetry Pope Pope's popular praise preface prose prosody published quatorzains quoted readers references rime Satan Seasons seems seen song sonnets Southey Spenser stanza sweet thee things Thomas Thomas Warton Thomson thou tion translation unrimed viii Virgil Warton William words Wordsworth writers written wrote