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... couplet had little admiration 1 2d ed . , xi . 409. Cf. John Duncombe's ode to the Earl of Corke ( see above , p . 8 , n . 6 ) , where " matchless Milton " is " foremost in the Lists of Fame , " though Pope will long " the Muse's Annals ...
... couplet had little admiration 1 2d ed . , xi . 409. Cf. John Duncombe's ode to the Earl of Corke ( see above , p . 8 , n . 6 ) , where " matchless Milton " is " foremost in the Lists of Fame , " though Pope will long " the Muse's Annals ...
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... couplets he used many phrases from Milton , and in his greatest work the style and diction are derived from the epic , which he greatly admired and frequently quoted from . The author of The Seasons is another writer who is commonly ...
... couplets he used many phrases from Milton , and in his greatest work the style and diction are derived from the epic , which he greatly admired and frequently quoted from . The author of The Seasons is another writer who is commonly ...
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... couplets . " Yet here also there is evidence on the other side , for in 1774 the first canto of the Faerie Queene was " attempted ... couplet as " the normal and habitual form in which poetry , 1 Furthermore , all of James Hervey's prose ...
... couplets . " Yet here also there is evidence on the other side , for in 1774 the first canto of the Faerie Queene was " attempted ... couplet as " the normal and habitual form in which poetry , 1 Furthermore , all of James Hervey's prose ...
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... couplet . Even had there been no great unrimed poetry a reaction must in- evitably have set in , but its advance was hastened , and made more conscious and intelligent , by the vogue of Paradise Lost.1 Criticize its verse as they might ...
... couplet . Even had there been no great unrimed poetry a reaction must in- evitably have set in , but its advance was hastened , and made more conscious and intelligent , by the vogue of Paradise Lost.1 Criticize its verse as they might ...
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... couplet as " un- able ... to stand the comparison with blank verse , " which " of all the different kinds of verse known in English poetry . . . is un- doubtedly entitled to be first mentioned as first in dignity and im- portance . " As ...
... couplet as " un- able ... to stand the comparison with blank verse , " which " of all the different kinds of verse known in English poetry . . . is un- doubtedly entitled to be first mentioned as first in dignity and im- portance . " As ...
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