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... stanza is and masterly as is Milton's handling of it , the meter has made almost no impress on English verse . Perhaps our writers , who do not take kindly to elaborate stanzas that are not of their own invention , have not cared to use ...
... stanza is and masterly as is Milton's handling of it , the meter has made almost no impress on English verse . Perhaps our writers , who do not take kindly to elaborate stanzas that are not of their own invention , have not cared to use ...
Page 567
... stanza , a very free rendering of " Zion heard and was glad , " is the one that owes most to the Nativity : Thus , while Substantial Darkness shrouds The Chamian Heaven in Solid Clouds , And with black Wings o'er frighted Mizraim broods ...
... stanza , a very free rendering of " Zion heard and was glad , " is the one that owes most to the Nativity : Thus , while Substantial Darkness shrouds The Chamian Heaven in Solid Clouds , And with black Wings o'er frighted Mizraim broods ...
Page 568
... stanza and suggests the subject and title , but contributes a simile as well as a few words and rimes.1 His ... stanza is like that in Milton's next to the last , besides beginning in the same way ; and the first two lines of the ...
... stanza and suggests the subject and title , but contributes a simile as well as a few words and rimes.1 His ... stanza is like that in Milton's next to the last , besides beginning in the same way ; and the first two lines of the ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARADISE LOST AND THEIR | 75 |
THOMSON | 123 |
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