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PLINE IN ENGLAND , " 1641 . [ DANTE , Inferno , xix . 115. ) AH , Constantine , of how much ill was cause , Not thy conversion , but those rich domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee ! [ PETRARCH , Sonnet 107. ) ...
PLINE IN ENGLAND , " 1641 . [ DANTE , Inferno , xix . 115. ) AH , Constantine , of how much ill was cause , Not thy conversion , but those rich domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee ! [ PETRARCH , Sonnet 107. ) ...
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The popular taste had revolted from his efforts to establish a Drama of Rhymed Declamation in England , and was calling loudly for a return to the Elizabethan Blank Verse for lofty subjects and Prose for others .
The popular taste had revolted from his efforts to establish a Drama of Rhymed Declamation in England , and was calling loudly for a return to the Elizabethan Blank Verse for lofty subjects and Prose for others .
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... and all good " learning too were destroyed by them , and after carried into France “ and Germany , and at last received into England , by men of excel“ lent wit indeed , but of small learning and less judgment in that behalf .
... and all good " learning too were destroyed by them , and after carried into France “ and Germany , and at last received into England , by men of excel“ lent wit indeed , but of small learning and less judgment in that behalf .
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( Of Ref . in England ) ; and other instances might be found . Again , in his poetry there are just ( if the verbal indexes have guided us properly ) five passages , in addition to the present , where the word in either form occurs ...
( Of Ref . in England ) ; and other instances might be found . Again , in his poetry there are just ( if the verbal indexes have guided us properly ) five passages , in addition to the present , where the word in either form occurs ...
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... these three speeches , had in view a kind of poetic representation of three very common types of human and national statesmanship — types which he might have found about him in the political world of England while he was writing .
... these three speeches , had in view a kind of poetic representation of three very common types of human and national statesmanship — types which he might have found about him in the political world of England while he was writing .
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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