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Language is the dress of thought : and as the no- nblest mien, or most graceful
action, would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross
employments of rusticks or mechanicks ; so the most heroick sentiments will lose
their ...
Language is the dress of thought : and as the no- nblest mien, or most graceful
action, would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross
employments of rusticks or mechanicks ; so the most heroick sentiments will lose
their ...
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... runs, and, as it runs, for ever shall run on. Cowley was, 1 believe, the first poet
that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten syllables ;
and from him jpryden borrowed the practice, whether ornamental or licentious.
... runs, and, as it runs, for ever shall run on. Cowley was, 1 believe, the first poet
that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten syllables ;
and from him jpryden borrowed the practice, whether ornamental or licentious.
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... subsequent editions of" Littleton's Dictionary," till that of 1735. Vid.Biogr. Brit.
2985, in not. So that, for aught that appears to the contrary, Philips was the last
possessor of Milton's MS. H. * Id est, to be the subject of an heroick I 2 MILTON.
115.
... subsequent editions of" Littleton's Dictionary," till that of 1735. Vid.Biogr. Brit.
2985, in not. So that, for aught that appears to the contrary, Philips was the last
possessor of Milton's MS. H. * Id est, to be the subject of an heroick I 2 MILTON.
115.
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Milton appears to suspect that souls partake of the general degene racy, and is
not without some fear that his book is to be written in an age too late for heroick
poesy .f J Another opinion wanders about the world, and sometimes finds.
Milton appears to suspect that souls partake of the general degene racy, and is
not without some fear that his book is to be written in an age too late for heroick
poesy .f J Another opinion wanders about the world, and sometimes finds.
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The questions, whether the action of the poem be strictly one, whether the poem
can be properly termed heroick, and who is the hero, are raised by such readers
as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason. Milton ...
The questions, whether the action of the poem be strictly one, whether the poem
can be properly termed heroick, and who is the hero, are raised by such readers
as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason. Milton ...
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