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... style , and all the ornaments of speech , that we have ” ( Origin and Progress of Language , 2d ed . , 1786 , iii . 68 n . ) . John Constable , in his Reflections upon Accuracy of Style ( 1731 , pp . 14-16 ) , quotes from Paradise Lost ...
... style , and all the ornaments of speech , that we have ” ( Origin and Progress of Language , 2d ed . , 1786 , iii . 68 n . ) . John Constable , in his Reflections upon Accuracy of Style ( 1731 , pp . 14-16 ) , quotes from Paradise Lost ...
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... style and diction and 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 ...
... style and diction and 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 ...
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... style stiffened with strange words arranged in an unusual order . The widespread conviction that , if an unrimed work was made suffi- ciently unlike prose , it would be good blank verse illustrates again how completely the measure was ...
... style stiffened with strange words arranged in an unusual order . The widespread conviction that , if an unrimed work was made suffi- ciently unlike prose , it would be good blank verse illustrates again how completely the measure was ...
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... style " in Crowe's Lewesdon Hill ; they were pleased with Drummond's Odin for its general resemblance to Paradise Lost , and praised Cowper as " perhaps the most successful " imitator of Mil- ton.2 One popular writer even maintained ...
... style " in Crowe's Lewesdon Hill ; they were pleased with Drummond's Odin for its general resemblance to Paradise Lost , and praised Cowper as " perhaps the most successful " imitator of Mil- ton.2 One popular writer even maintained ...
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... Style Imitated , where the imitation is limited to the absence of rime . In the follow- ing lines by Edmund Smith " Miltonian verse " means simply blank verse : Oh ! might I paint him in Miltonian verse .. But with the meaner Tribe I'm ...
... Style Imitated , where the imitation is limited to the absence of rime . In the follow- ing lines by Edmund Smith " Miltonian verse " means simply blank verse : Oh ! might I paint him in Miltonian verse .. But with the meaner Tribe I'm ...
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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