Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' |
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... verse , do not in fact occur . One is the joining of a concrete descriptive epithet to an abstract noun , as in ' fleecy care ' . This is a device for attaining the compression of Latin verse . A similar device is the joining of a ...
... verse , do not in fact occur . One is the joining of a concrete descriptive epithet to an abstract noun , as in ' fleecy care ' . This is a device for attaining the compression of Latin verse . A similar device is the joining of a ...
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... verse . He will reverse the normal order of subject and verb , and separate a verb from its component adverb : ' Now came still Ev'ning on ' . He will place an epithet after its noun in order to emphasize it : adventure hard With peril ...
... verse . He will reverse the normal order of subject and verb , and separate a verb from its component adverb : ' Now came still Ev'ning on ' . He will place an epithet after its noun in order to emphasize it : adventure hard With peril ...
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... verse , especially a blank verse so girded as Milton's . A leading anti - Miltonist is reported to have said that Paradise Lost was the one book he took into the trenches in France in the 1914 war because it was the only verse that ...
... verse , especially a blank verse so girded as Milton's . A leading anti - Miltonist is reported to have said that Paradise Lost was the one book he took into the trenches in France in the 1914 war because it was the only verse that ...
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accepted action Adam and Eve Adam's angels appear argument become beginning better Book called century character comes common course created creation criticism Death describing doctrine Earth effect English epic evil example expressed fact Fall Father feel figure follows fruit God's hand Heaven Hell heroic human ideas images imagination knowledge language Latin less light lines live look means MICHIGAN Milton mind narrative nature never once opening original Paradise Lost passage peace person picture poem poet poetic poetry presented question reader reason relation represent Satan says scene seen sense sight simile stand story style tells thee things thir thou thought tion told true truth UNIVERSITY verse whole wind write