Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 378
... Milton , and the tumid declamation of Young , or between the varied pauses of highly - finished blank verse and a ... Milton , still elevates the mind by the vigour and novelty of his fiction , and is certainly more tender and pathetic ...
... Milton , and the tumid declamation of Young , or between the varied pauses of highly - finished blank verse and a ... Milton , still elevates the mind by the vigour and novelty of his fiction , and is certainly more tender and pathetic ...
Page 402
... Milton , both pre - eminent in their respective walks , but the former perhaps more generally harmonious . In Milton , a style elaborate and abounding in transposition , mingled with foreign idiom , and scientific terms , and fre ...
... Milton , both pre - eminent in their respective walks , but the former perhaps more generally harmonious . In Milton , a style elaborate and abounding in transposition , mingled with foreign idiom , and scientific terms , and fre ...
Page 408
... Milton being attempted through the fall of Eve , in Cumberland through the destruction of Christ , scope is left for , and has been occupied by , new imagery and new argument . The author of Calvary therefore , notwithstanding the pre ...
... Milton being attempted through the fall of Eve , in Cumberland through the destruction of Christ , scope is left for , and has been occupied by , new imagery and new argument . The author of Calvary therefore , notwithstanding the pre ...
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