The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... ENGLISH And VerSIFICATION BY DAVID MASSON , M.A. LL.D. PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH VOL . III . GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH AND VERSIFICATION AND NOTES TO THE POEMS London MACMILLAN ...
... ENGLISH And VerSIFICATION BY DAVID MASSON , M.A. LL.D. PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH VOL . III . GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH AND VERSIFICATION AND NOTES TO THE POEMS London MACMILLAN ...
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... English Verse NOTES TO THE POEMS : - PREFACE TO THE NOTES 107 PART I. - NOTES TO THE ENGLISH POEMS Paraphrases on Psalms cxiv . and cxxxvi . , pp . 145-147 ; On the Death of a Fair Infant , pp . 147-148 ; At a Vacation Exercise in the ...
... English Verse NOTES TO THE POEMS : - PREFACE TO THE NOTES 107 PART I. - NOTES TO THE ENGLISH POEMS Paraphrases on Psalms cxiv . and cxxxvi . , pp . 145-147 ; On the Death of a Fair Infant , pp . 147-148 ; At a Vacation Exercise in the ...
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... English Verse . I. MILTON'S VOCABULARY . From the tolerably complete verbal Indexes that have been pre- pared for Milton's Poetical Works , it has been computed that 1 The chief of these Indexes are :-( 1 ) The " Verbal Index to the ...
... English Verse . I. MILTON'S VOCABULARY . From the tolerably complete verbal Indexes that have been pre- pared for Milton's Poetical Works , it has been computed that 1 The chief of these Indexes are :-( 1 ) The " Verbal Index to the ...
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... English writer the extent of whose total vocabulary may have been ascertained is the question what proportion of that vocabulary consists of words of the old native English or " Anglo - Saxon " stock , and what of words derived from the ...
... English writer the extent of whose total vocabulary may have been ascertained is the question what proportion of that vocabulary consists of words of the old native English or " Anglo - Saxon " stock , and what of words derived from the ...
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... English Dictionary , but even in the English Dictionary of Milton's day , were never used by him even once , but , so far as his poems were concerned , were allowed to lie about ungrasped , so it may be expected that , of the words ...
... English Dictionary , but even in the English Dictionary of Milton's day , were never used by him even once , but , so far as his poems were concerned , were allowed to lie about ungrasped , so it may be expected that , of the words ...
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