The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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... natural to his profession , and had moreover been an army - physician and associate of Cromwellians in the Commonwealth time . He survived Milton more than seven years ; and his widow , who appears to have erected the slab to his memory ...
... natural to his profession , and had moreover been an army - physician and associate of Cromwellians in the Commonwealth time . He survived Milton more than seven years ; and his widow , who appears to have erected the slab to his memory ...
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... natural word than the one that might otherwise have suggested itself . Generalize this one instance sufficiently , and the superiority of Milton's unrhymed verse for all great purposes will be apparent . " II . AUTHOR'S PREFACE ...
... natural word than the one that might otherwise have suggested itself . Generalize this one instance sufficiently , and the superiority of Milton's unrhymed verse for all great purposes will be apparent . " II . AUTHOR'S PREFACE ...
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... natural causes its origin among the races that first used it , and its rapid adoption everywhere in the vernacular poetry of modern Europe , are to be attributed . The fact of such universal adoption , sanctioned by the example of the ...
... natural causes its origin among the races that first used it , and its rapid adoption everywhere in the vernacular poetry of modern Europe , are to be attributed . The fact of such universal adoption , sanctioned by the example of the ...
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... natural interpretation is , " transgress his will on account of one restraint ( though they were ) lords of the world besides ; " and this is the interpretation suggested by the original pointing . 33 , 34. " Who first seduced them ...
... natural interpretation is , " transgress his will on account of one restraint ( though they were ) lords of the world besides ; " and this is the interpretation suggested by the original pointing . 33 , 34. " Who first seduced them ...
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... natural to the poetic mind , of pursuing a comparison , once suggested , beyond the mere limits of illustrative likeness , for the sake of a rich accumulation of circumstance beautiful in itself . Spenser ( F. Q. v . 5 , 3 ) compares ...
... natural to the poetic mind , of pursuing a comparison , once suggested , beyond the mere limits of illustrative likeness , for the sake of a rich accumulation of circumstance beautiful in itself . Spenser ( F. Q. v . 5 , 3 ) compares ...
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