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Page 17
... marked exception , for he said of it : " Si Poëma Heroicum proprie dictum non scripsit Miltonus ; certe Poëma optimum scripsit ; omni laude dignus , dicam ? imo major : Homeri , & Virgilii , non servus Imitator , viam aperuit prorsus ...
... marked exception , for he said of it : " Si Poëma Heroicum proprie dictum non scripsit Miltonus ; certe Poëma optimum scripsit ; omni laude dignus , dicam ? imo major : Homeri , & Virgilii , non servus Imitator , viam aperuit prorsus ...
Page 31
... marked , so virulent and unrelenting , " his " enmity " so " inexorable , " that it was " difficult to conjecture into what vehemence of angry reproach it might have hurried him had it not been bridled by his awe of the public . ” 4 1 ...
... marked , so virulent and unrelenting , " his " enmity " so " inexorable , " that it was " difficult to conjecture into what vehemence of angry reproach it might have hurried him had it not been bridled by his awe of the public . ” 4 1 ...
Page 83
... marked in any age ; but in the time of Pope and Johnson , when the poetic vocabulary was unusually limited and when many old words that are common to - day were obsolete , it must have seemed strange enough.2 The words in Paradise Lost ...
... marked in any age ; but in the time of Pope and Johnson , when the poetic vocabulary was unusually limited and when many old words that are common to - day were obsolete , it must have seemed strange enough.2 The words in Paradise Lost ...
Page 105
... marked by a large proportion of the weak endings that distinguish Shakespeare's later manner but are rare in Paradise Lost . His use of blank verse was not limited to translations , for three of the poems recently dis- covered at ...
... marked by a large proportion of the weak endings that distinguish Shakespeare's later manner but are rare in Paradise Lost . His use of blank verse was not limited to translations , for three of the poems recently dis- covered at ...
Page 115
... edition of the epic showed that he had carefully considered the suggested textual emendations and marked such as appealed to him ( Newton's ed . , preface ) . 3 effect like the working old abbey stones into a POPE 115.
... edition of the epic showed that he had carefully considered the suggested textual emendations and marked such as appealed to him ( Newton's ed . , preface ) . 3 effect like the working old abbey stones into a POPE 115.
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