The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... poems ; and there are places in the vocabulary where the proportion of such words is even greater . Thus , of about 375 words beginning with the letters Un which I find in Todd's Index to Milton's Poems , I have counted no fewer than ...
... poems ; and there are places in the vocabulary where the proportion of such words is even greater . Thus , of about 375 words beginning with the letters Un which I find in Todd's Index to Milton's Poems , I have counted no fewer than ...
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... 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 future popularity on the ...
... 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 future popularity on the ...
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... Poems , and ( 2 ) Some specimens of the preserved Manuscript Drafts of a considerable portion of them . The following are passages from the Poems as they were printed in the original editions . For the orthography , etc. , of the ...
... Poems , and ( 2 ) Some specimens of the preserved Manuscript Drafts of a considerable portion of them . The following are passages from the Poems as they were printed in the original editions . For the orthography , etc. , of the ...
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... poems , with this result : in the 1645 edition of the Minor Poems it occurs but once , and then in our present form ... poem it is invariably again least . To make amends , however , the spelling is again lest in each of eleven occur ...
... poems , with this result : in the 1645 edition of the Minor Poems it occurs but once , and then in our present form ... poem it is invariably again least . To make amends , however , the spelling is again lest in each of eleven occur ...
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... poems , the normal form least is kept forty - three times ; but the form lest happens four times ( P. L. , IX . 460 ... poem it is balme , while the adjective , four times repeated , is balmie ; finally , in Sams . Ag . , where we have ...
... poems , the normal form least is kept forty - three times ; but the form lest happens four times ( P. L. , IX . 460 ... poem it is balme , while the adjective , four times repeated , is balmie ; finally , in Sams . Ag . , where we have ...
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