The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 144
... Milton has fo very much enriched , and in some places darkened the language of his poem , was the more proper for ... Milton's numbers , in which he has made ufe of feveral elifions , which are not cuftomary among other English poets ...
... Milton has fo very much enriched , and in some places darkened the language of his poem , was the more proper for ... Milton's numbers , in which he has made ufe of feveral elifions , which are not cuftomary among other English poets ...
Page 191
... Milton feems to have been fenfible of this imperfec- tion in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by ... Milton's fable , which is indeed almost the fame with the former , though placed in a different light , namely ...
... Milton feems to have been fenfible of this imperfec- tion in his fable , and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by ... Milton's fable , which is indeed almost the fame with the former , though placed in a different light , namely ...
Page 225
... Milton's fimilitudes . I am the more particular on this head , because ignorant readers , who have formed their tafte upon the quaint fimiles and little turns of wit , which are so much in vogue among modern poets , cannot relish these ...
... Milton's fimilitudes . I am the more particular on this head , because ignorant readers , who have formed their tafte upon the quaint fimiles and little turns of wit , which are so much in vogue among modern poets , cannot relish these ...
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