The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... Spenser , from the examination of a Canto , is rated at 86 per cent , Shakespeare at from 88 to 91 per cent , and even Chaucer only once reaches 93 per cent and is usually nearer 89 or 90. Milton's place in the list is assigned from ...
... Spenser , from the examination of a Canto , is rated at 86 per cent , Shakespeare at from 88 to 91 per cent , and even Chaucer only once reaches 93 per cent and is usually nearer 89 or 90. Milton's place in the list is assigned from ...
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... Spenser frequently indulging in rowle . On the other hand the spelling roll had become commoner with some of Milton's contemporaries , and even some of his seniors , than we find it in himself . Thus roll or rolle , rhyming to such ...
... Spenser frequently indulging in rowle . On the other hand the spelling roll had become commoner with some of Milton's contemporaries , and even some of his seniors , than we find it in himself . Thus roll or rolle , rhyming to such ...
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... Spenser , with his studied archaism , it is frequent . Milton has it but rarely , ―ychained ( Od . Nat . 155 ) , yclept ( L'All . 12 ) . See notes on these passages : also on rushy- fringed ( Com . 890 ) , and star - ypointing ( On Shak ...
... Spenser , with his studied archaism , it is frequent . Milton has it but rarely , ―ychained ( Od . Nat . 155 ) , yclept ( L'All . 12 ) . See notes on these passages : also on rushy- fringed ( Com . 890 ) , and star - ypointing ( On Shak ...
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... Spenser or a reading in Shakespeare to any of Milton's poems without a feeling of the fact . Accuracy , disciplined accuracy , is discernible in the word - texture of all his poems . There is , however , a gradation chronologically . In ...
... Spenser or a reading in Shakespeare to any of Milton's poems without a feeling of the fact . Accuracy , disciplined accuracy , is discernible in the word - texture of all his poems . There is , however , a gradation chronologically . In ...
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... Spenser ( Ruines of Time , Hymn of Heavenly Love , etc. ) , and by Shakespeare ( Lucrece ) . At a Vacation Exercise : 1628. - Ordinary rhyming Heroics . On the Morning of Christ's Nativity . — Introduction in same stanza as on the Death ...
... Spenser ( Ruines of Time , Hymn of Heavenly Love , etc. ) , and by Shakespeare ( Lucrece ) . At a Vacation Exercise : 1628. - Ordinary rhyming Heroics . On the Morning of Christ's Nativity . — Introduction in same stanza as on the Death ...
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