Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... speech , which the critics call Hellen- isms , as Horace in his Odes abounds with them , much more than Virgil . I need not mention the several dialects which Homer has made use of for this end . Milton , in conformity with the practice ...
... speech , which the critics call Hellen- isms , as Horace in his Odes abounds with them , much more than Virgil . I need not mention the several dialects which Homer has made use of for this end . Milton , in conformity with the practice ...
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... speech follow the lines ( 549-50 ) : So gloz'd the Tempter , and his Proem tun'd ; Into the Heart of Eve his words made way . Then she is unwary ( 613-14 ) : So talk'd the spirited sly Snake ; and Eve Yet more amaz'd unwarie thus reply ...
... speech follow the lines ( 549-50 ) : So gloz'd the Tempter , and his Proem tun'd ; Into the Heart of Eve his words made way . Then she is unwary ( 613-14 ) : So talk'd the spirited sly Snake ; and Eve Yet more amaz'd unwarie thus reply ...
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... speech . This is the sense of Wordsworth's Prefaces . By the beginning of the present century another revolution in idiom - and such revolutions bring with them an alteration of metric , a new appeal to the ear - was due . It inevitably ...
... speech . This is the sense of Wordsworth's Prefaces . By the beginning of the present century another revolution in idiom - and such revolutions bring with them an alteration of metric , a new appeal to the ear - was due . It inevitably ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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