Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of LiteratureHaskell House, 1964 - 222 pages |
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... grand style ? Most certainly not , though the indulgence in it is as certainly , an excellent means thereto . Perhaps there is hardly even in Dante a passage achieving this grand style better in the varied and elaborate fashion than the ...
... grand style ? Most certainly not , though the indulgence in it is as certainly , an excellent means thereto . Perhaps there is hardly even in Dante a passage achieving this grand style better in the varied and elaborate fashion than the ...
Page 105
... grand style to blank verse is a matter too obvious to require lengthy treatment , but too intimately connected with our subject to escape some notice . When Dr. Johnson laid it down " that if blank verse be not tumid ... GRAND STYLE . 105.
... grand style to blank verse is a matter too obvious to require lengthy treatment , but too intimately connected with our subject to escape some notice . When Dr. Johnson laid it down " that if blank verse be not tumid ... GRAND STYLE . 105.
Page 106
... grand style ? " I shall respect his sentiments , but demur to his principles . It is , indeed , impossible that the grand style should exist without great thought and great subject : for the very reason that it is of the essence of the ...
... grand style ? " I shall respect his sentiments , but demur to his principles . It is , indeed , impossible that the grand style should exist without great thought and great subject : for the very reason that it is of the essence of the ...
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MILTONS KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC By WILLIAM HENRY | 11 |
A NOTE ON MILTONS SHORTER POEMS By ERNEST | 23 |
MILTON AND THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS By WILLIAM | 39 |
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