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... remarked still another , " is justly deemed to have no Taste for Polite Literature , " 4 a phrase that recalls Steele's surprising reference to Otway , Milton , and Dryden as among " the most polite Writers of the Age . " But Steele had ...
... remarked still another , " is justly deemed to have no Taste for Polite Literature , " 4 a phrase that recalls Steele's surprising reference to Otway , Milton , and Dryden as among " the most polite Writers of the Age . " But Steele had ...
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... remarked , " The beauties of spring have already been so amply described , and so nobly treated by Thomson , that ... remarking fourteen years later that Thomson was " perhaps , the most popular of all our poets , treating of a subject ...
... remarked , " The beauties of spring have already been so amply described , and so nobly treated by Thomson , that ... remarking fourteen years later that Thomson was " perhaps , the most popular of all our poets , treating of a subject ...
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... remarked Pope , " that Album Graecum is better than an ordinary stool . " M. Thomas gives " ter- raqueous , " " optics " ( eyes ) , " defecate , " " feculence , " " manumit , ' " indagators , " " conglobed , " " fucus , " " concertion ...
... remarked Pope , " that Album Graecum is better than an ordinary stool . " M. Thomas gives " ter- raqueous , " " optics " ( eyes ) , " defecate , " " feculence , " " manumit , ' " indagators , " " conglobed , " " fucus , " " concertion ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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