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... prose writings and the political activities of the Latin secretary of the Commonwealth.2 It was Johnson's misrepresentation of Milton's love of liberty that called forth the denunciation from Hollis's biographer , Archdeacon Blackburne ...
... prose writings and the political activities of the Latin secretary of the Commonwealth.2 It was Johnson's misrepresentation of Milton's love of liberty that called forth the denunciation from Hollis's biographer , Archdeacon Blackburne ...
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... prose of Johnson , Burke , and Gibbon . Still another force that made strongly for unnaturalness of diction was the constant dread of being prosaic.2 Nothing shows the un- poetic nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this ...
... prose of Johnson , Burke , and Gibbon . Still another force that made strongly for unnaturalness of diction was the constant dread of being prosaic.2 Nothing shows the un- poetic nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this ...
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... prose translations , which the Augustans apparently did not consider at all but which to - day are probably read more than any others . Yet , though the average reader may prefer prose , poets and men of learning as a rule do not . To ...
... prose translations , which the Augustans apparently did not consider at all but which to - day are probably read more than any others . Yet , though the average reader may prefer prose , poets and men of learning as a rule do not . To ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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