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Page 55
... speech and rhythm and flamboyant rhetoric ; half - metaphysical wit ; moral statement in the vein of Augustan classicism ; rhymed couplets in the midst of the predominant blank verse ; even a section ( 277 f . ) which catches exactly ...
... speech and rhythm and flamboyant rhetoric ; half - metaphysical wit ; moral statement in the vein of Augustan classicism ; rhymed couplets in the midst of the predominant blank verse ; even a section ( 277 f . ) which catches exactly ...
Page 148
... speech , delivered to his lieuten- ant , Beelzebub , is a grand defiance of God , a superlative piece of rhetoric in which every phrase reveals his false scale of values , his unconquerable will and immortal hate , his egoistic pride ...
... speech , delivered to his lieuten- ant , Beelzebub , is a grand defiance of God , a superlative piece of rhetoric in which every phrase reveals his false scale of values , his unconquerable will and immortal hate , his egoistic pride ...
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... speech ( IV . 440 f . ) , her story of her first experience of being alive . Seeing her face in a pool , she had loved it , and when she turned away at her first sight of Adam , he followed , crying " Return , fair Eve , Whom fli'st ...
... speech ( IV . 440 f . ) , her story of her first experience of being alive . Seeing her face in a pool , she had loved it , and when she turned away at her first sight of Adam , he followed , crying " Return , fair Eve , Whom fli'st ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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