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... Milton's sublime , I have fairly been sick of their sing song and rhyme . There was Collins , ' tis true , had a good deal to say ; But the rogue had no industry -- neither had Gray : And l'homson , though best in his indolent fits ...
... Milton's sublime , I have fairly been sick of their sing song and rhyme . There was Collins , ' tis true , had a good deal to say ; But the rogue had no industry -- neither had Gray : And l'homson , though best in his indolent fits ...
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... Milton , and six was the shout , When bursting at once in its mightiness out , The organ came gath'ring and rolling its thunder ; Yet wanted not intervals , calmer of wonder , Nor stops of low sweetness , like winds when they fall , Nor ...
... Milton , and six was the shout , When bursting at once in its mightiness out , The organ came gath'ring and rolling its thunder ; Yet wanted not intervals , calmer of wonder , Nor stops of low sweetness , like winds when they fall , Nor ...
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... Milton ; but if the author of the Rape of the Lock , of Eloisa to Abelard , and of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is no poet , then are fancy and feeling no properties belong- ing to poetry . I am only considering his ver ...
... Milton ; but if the author of the Rape of the Lock , of Eloisa to Abelard , and of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is no poet , then are fancy and feeling no properties belong- ing to poetry . I am only considering his ver ...
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... Milton , " notwith- standing his singular skill in music , " had " a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the ...
... Milton , " notwith- standing his singular skill in music , " had " a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the ...
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... to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of Dryden , Spenser , and Milton ; not that the style of any great writer is to be imitated at a venture , or to be studied with any direct 42.
... to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of Dryden , Spenser , and Milton ; not that the style of any great writer is to be imitated at a venture , or to be studied with any direct 42.
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