The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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With Memoir Etc John Milton. GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH & VERSIFICATION WHILE much on this subject will be gathered best from the special Notes to the Poems , there are certain pervading characteristics and recurring peculiarities ...
With Memoir Etc John Milton. GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH & VERSIFICATION WHILE much on this subject will be gathered best from the special Notes to the Poems , there are certain pervading characteristics and recurring peculiarities ...
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With Memoir Etc John Milton. Milton's total vocabulary in these works , to the exclusion of his prose - writings , consists of about 8000 words . In this computation all separate parts of speech are counted as distinct words , but in ...
With Memoir Etc John Milton. Milton's total vocabulary in these works , to the exclusion of his prose - writings , consists of about 8000 words . In this computation all separate parts of speech are counted as distinct words , but in ...
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... Milton would yield curious results . As respects Milton , an indication or two must here suffice : -Just as , from the mere statement that Milton's poetical vocabulary consists of but about 8000 words , it is evident that thousands of ...
... Milton would yield curious results . As respects Milton , an indication or two must here suffice : -Just as , from the mere statement that Milton's poetical vocabulary consists of but about 8000 words , it is evident that thousands of ...
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... Milton's drag λeyoμeva are probably even more numerous proportionally than Shakespeare's . Of the ten Shakespearian words mentioned , three are also drag λeyoueva in Milton's poetry , -to wit abrupt , congratulate ( in the form ...
... Milton's drag λeyoμeva are probably even more numerous proportionally than Shakespeare's . Of the ten Shakespearian words mentioned , three are also drag λeyoueva in Milton's poetry , -to wit abrupt , congratulate ( in the form ...
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... Milton's vocabulary in his poems . Is any proportion of it obsolete ? On the whole , whether from the judiciousness with which Milton chose words that had a strong force of vitality in them , or from the power of such a writer to confer ...
... Milton's vocabulary in his poems . Is any proportion of it obsolete ? On the whole , whether from the judiciousness with which Milton chose words that had a strong force of vitality in them , or from the power of such a writer to confer ...
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