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... passages from him . Since nearly half of these numerous borrowings are from the minor poems , they reveal a close ... passages as these : 1 Lines 289-92 . 2 Quoted from the first edition ( 1727 ) , pages 47-8 ; the passage ...
... passages from him . Since nearly half of these numerous borrowings are from the minor poems , they reveal a close ... passages as these : 1 Lines 289-92 . 2 Quoted from the first edition ( 1727 ) , pages 47-8 ; the passage ...
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... passages of any length are dominated by the Miltonic style and diction . That is , although many passages show the influence of Paradise Lost as plainly as this one , few show it for so many lines : In grandeur terrible , all heaven ...
... passages of any length are dominated by the Miltonic style and diction . That is , although many passages show the influence of Paradise Lost as plainly as this one , few show it for so many lines : In grandeur terrible , all heaven ...
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... passages , and it is here that we best realize how deeply he had drunk at the fountain - head of English poetic blank verse and with what insistence the " voice whose sound was like the sea " kept ringing in his ears . Yet , for the ...
... passages , and it is here that we best realize how deeply he had drunk at the fountain - head of English poetic blank verse and with what insistence the " voice whose sound was like the sea " kept ringing in his ears . Yet , for the ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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