The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... phrase " Milton's spelling , " it is impossible to say what Milton's spelling really is . There is an extant mass of his own manuscript , containing the drafts of a portion of his earlier English Poems . There , certainly , so far as ...
... phrase " Milton's spelling , " it is impossible to say what Milton's spelling really is . There is an extant mass of his own manuscript , containing the drafts of a portion of his earlier English Poems . There , certainly , so far as ...
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... phrases as " I did say it to ' im , but ' e drove me to it by ' is conduct to ' er " ; and that the same habit was common long ago , not among uneducated persons merely , is proved by the fact that in Early English writings we find ' a ...
... phrases as " I did say it to ' im , but ' e drove me to it by ' is conduct to ' er " ; and that the same habit was common long ago , not among uneducated persons merely , is proved by the fact that in Early English writings we find ' a ...
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... phrase compounded of an adjective and a substantive is made to do duty as an adjective . The Miltonic examples of it , though memorable , are few . I have noted the following : - " He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was 80 ...
... phrase compounded of an adjective and a substantive is made to do duty as an adjective . The Miltonic examples of it , though memorable , are few . I have noted the following : - " He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was 80 ...
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... phrase " The other sort , " in the one , and the noun " Thoughts " in the other , may be taken as in- stances of an ... phrases as " He denied you had in him no right , " " " Forbade the boy he should not pass these bounds , " where the ...
... phrase " The other sort , " in the one , and the noun " Thoughts " in the other , may be taken as in- stances of an ... phrases as " He denied you had in him no right , " " " Forbade the boy he should not pass these bounds , " where the ...
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... phrase . Probably Milton's habit of referring to Latin con- structions made it natural for him to perpetuate this ... phrases as mei qui , mei cujus , ejus qui , ejus quem , eorum qui , eorum quos , etc. We see this recollectiveness of ...
... phrase . Probably Milton's habit of referring to Latin con- structions made it natural for him to perpetuate this ... phrases as mei qui , mei cujus , ejus qui , ejus quem , eorum qui , eorum quos , etc. We see this recollectiveness of ...
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