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... night we die , Each morn are born anew : Each day , a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills ; Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time destroy'd Is suicide , where more than blood ...
... night we die , Each morn are born anew : Each day , a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills ; Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time destroy'd Is suicide , where more than blood ...
Page 158
... Night Thoughts , they were of service in the de- velopment of blank verse . The task of the eighteenth century was to hammer down Milton's style , which , like Lucifer's shield , was of " ethereal temper , massy , large , and round ...
... Night Thoughts , they were of service in the de- velopment of blank verse . The task of the eighteenth century was to hammer down Milton's style , which , like Lucifer's shield , was of " ethereal temper , massy , large , and round ...
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... Night Thoughts " next to God's own Word . " 2 Considerable evidence could , in truth , be adduced in support of Samuel J. Pratt's assertion that " no composition can . . . boast a greater number of readers . " Nu- merous readers implied ...
... Night Thoughts " next to God's own Word . " 2 Considerable evidence could , in truth , be adduced in support of Samuel J. Pratt's assertion that " no composition can . . . boast a greater number of readers . " Nu- merous readers implied ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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