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Page 61
... stand . Many repe- titions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ? These lines were at the be- ginning of the poems . Of a book written in a lan- guage not ...
... stand . Many repe- titions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ? These lines were at the be- ginning of the poems . Of a book written in a lan- guage not ...
Page 85
... stand the comparison . Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say , that all the parts are not equal . In every work , one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages ; a ...
... stand the comparison . Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say , that all the parts are not equal . In every work , one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages ; a ...
Page 120
... stand : a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield ; Awaiting what command their mighty Chief Had to impose . He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye , and ...
... stand : a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield ; Awaiting what command their mighty Chief Had to impose . He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye , and ...
Page 122
... Stands on the blasted heath . He now prepared To speak ; whereat , their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing , and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of ...
... Stands on the blasted heath . He now prepared To speak ; whereat , their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing , and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of ...
Page 129
... stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark ; and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction : for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
... stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark ; and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction : for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.