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Page 48
... writers gained him admirers . But a greater factor in the popularizing of blank verse was probably the very dominance of rime . Tyranny breeds revolt , and , as the years passed , more and more necks were galled by the yoke of the ...
... writers gained him admirers . But a greater factor in the popularizing of blank verse was probably the very dominance of rime . Tyranny breeds revolt , and , as the years passed , more and more necks were galled by the yoke of the ...
Page 121
... writers in this survey , we have found very few Miltonic poems with which even scholars are familiar , and , except for the Splendid Shilling and Cyder , none that appear to have at- tracted much of any attention even in their own day ...
... writers in this survey , we have found very few Miltonic poems with which even scholars are familiar , and , except for the Splendid Shilling and Cyder , none that appear to have at- tracted much of any attention even in their own day ...
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... writers of blank verse . Even the cold , fastidi- ous Akenside made use of them , and in the unrimed work of Shen- stone , who lacked neither taste nor discernment , their peculiarities are far more conspicuous than in The Seasons ...
... writers of blank verse . Even the cold , fastidi- ous Akenside made use of them , and in the unrimed work of Shen- stone , who lacked neither taste nor discernment , their peculiarities are far more conspicuous than in The Seasons ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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