Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 11
... passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English ...
... passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English ...
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... passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names . But they ...
... passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names . But they ...
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... passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the ...
... passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the ...
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... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . “ I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique ...
... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . “ I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique ...
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... passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the mariner mistakes for an island . When he addresses himself to battle ...
... passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the mariner mistakes for an island . When he addresses himself to battle ...
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