The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... remarks relate to Milton's Poetry only , any references to his Prose being but incidental . The remarks may arrange themselves under six heads : - : - I. Milton's Vocabulary . II . Spelling and Pronunciation . III . Peculiarities of ...
... remarks relate to Milton's Poetry only , any references to his Prose being but incidental . The remarks may arrange themselves under six heads : - : - I. Milton's Vocabulary . II . Spelling and Pronunciation . III . Peculiarities of ...
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... remarks to the vocabularies of Shakespeare and 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 ...
... remarks to the vocabularies of Shakespeare and 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 ...
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... remark on this subject is both true and acute . " The most curious thing of all in the history of the word its , " he says , " is the extent to which , before its recognition as a word admissible in serious composition , even the ...
... remark on this subject is both true and acute . " The most curious thing of all in the history of the word its , " he says , " is the extent to which , before its recognition as a word admissible in serious composition , even the ...
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... remarks is on what we here call Syntax and Idiom . 66 66 66 66 " Elizabethan English , on a superficial view , appears to present " this great point of difference from the English of modern times , " that in the former any ...
... remarks is on what we here call Syntax and Idiom . 66 66 66 66 " Elizabethan English , on a superficial view , appears to present " this great point of difference from the English of modern times , " that in the former any ...
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... remark through fifteen pages of examples and com- ments . The ellipses in Milton are perhaps not so numerous as in Shakespeare ; but they are frequent and interesting . Some may be called Ellipses in thought , inasmuch as what is ...
... remark through fifteen pages of examples and com- ments . The ellipses in Milton are perhaps not so numerous as in Shakespeare ; but they are frequent and interesting . Some may be called Ellipses in thought , inasmuch as what is ...
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