A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1954 - 465 pages |
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... English ) Milton was following the learned prece- dent of his age . He recognized , however , that English was to be his ultimate medium ( witness the verses on his mother tongue inserted in the Vacation Exercise of 1628 ) and , from ...
... English ) Milton was following the learned prece- dent of his age . He recognized , however , that English was to be his ultimate medium ( witness the verses on his mother tongue inserted in the Vacation Exercise of 1628 ) and , from ...
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... English poets as one might expect . Marsh estimated 33 per cent of Anglo - Saxon words in Milton's total vocabulary as against 60 per cent for Shakespeare and the English Bible ( see the studies of Milton's diction in progress at the ...
... English poets as one might expect . Marsh estimated 33 per cent of Anglo - Saxon words in Milton's total vocabulary as against 60 per cent for Shakespeare and the English Bible ( see the studies of Milton's diction in progress at the ...
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... English expression since the beginnings of humanism , and was at its height in the early seventeenth century . It was , how- ever , most common in formal prose and was on the whole avoided by the poets . John Donne , to be sure , makes ...
... English expression since the beginnings of humanism , and was at its height in the early seventeenth century . It was , how- ever , most common in formal prose and was on the whole avoided by the poets . John Donne , to be sure , makes ...
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PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 268 |
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