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... given by the end - position to the first fell , ' with the accompanying pause , in what looks like a common , limply pompous Miltonicism- 6 and how he fell From Heav'n , they fabl'd , thrown . . . --is here uncommonly right ; the heavy ...
... given by the end - position to the first fell , ' with the accompanying pause , in what looks like a common , limply pompous Miltonicism- 6 and how he fell From Heav'n , they fabl'd , thrown . . . --is here uncommonly right ; the heavy ...
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... given thee till the break of day . ' poem Attempted paraphrase of this would be brought up against awkward questions - would turn , in fact , into interpretation and comment . In spite of the semi - colon at the end of the second line ...
... given thee till the break of day . ' poem Attempted paraphrase of this would be brought up against awkward questions - would turn , in fact , into interpretation and comment . In spite of the semi - colon at the end of the second line ...
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... given a bathos - bathos except in the Lover's ear alone . ' Actually the success of the poem depends on our getting both that surprise and the Lover's surprise , for Wordsworth induces in us enough of the appropriate ' ear . ' As the ...
... given a bathos - bathos except in the Lover's ear alone . ' Actually the success of the poem depends on our getting both that surprise and the Lover's surprise , for Wordsworth induces in us enough of the appropriate ' ear . ' As the ...
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