Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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... why an enthusiasm for Mil- ton's verse is now considered to be a delicate appetite appropriate 1 F. R. LEAVIS , ' Milton's Verse ' , Scrutiny , II ( 1933 ) , p . 123 . to an ageing book - worm ; why to a 2 ON THE STUDY OF PROSODY II.
... why an enthusiasm for Mil- ton's verse is now considered to be a delicate appetite appropriate 1 F. R. LEAVIS , ' Milton's Verse ' , Scrutiny , II ( 1933 ) , p . 123 . to an ageing book - worm ; why to a 2 ON THE STUDY OF PROSODY II.
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... two qualifications of the one reference without punctuation . 2 E.g. , P.L. , I , 8 . 3 E.g. , P.L. , I , 61 , 558 ( Ct . P.L. , II , 950 ) . Milton considered the line as a more or less isolated 118 ' PARAGRAPH FINGERING ' AND THE BREAK.
... two qualifications of the one reference without punctuation . 2 E.g. , P.L. , I , 8 . 3 E.g. , P.L. , I , 61 , 558 ( Ct . P.L. , II , 950 ) . Milton considered the line as a more or less isolated 118 ' PARAGRAPH FINGERING ' AND THE BREAK.
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. Milton considered the line as a more or less isolated unit of verse to be indicated as such by some sort of breath pause or lingering at the end.1 His arguments are in brief : ( i ) Milton's note on the verse of ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. Milton considered the line as a more or less isolated unit of verse to be indicated as such by some sort of breath pause or lingering at the end.1 His arguments are in brief : ( i ) Milton's note on the verse of ...
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