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... Milton of the seventeenth century , can see truly the poets of the nineteenth century , foreknowing which light shall pass away like a conflagration or a meteor , and which is beginning a perpetual planetary motion with the great lights ...
... Milton of the seventeenth century , can see truly the poets of the nineteenth century , foreknowing which light shall pass away like a conflagration or a meteor , and which is beginning a perpetual planetary motion with the great lights ...
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... Milton - Hume's ex- postulation with Gibbon - Daniel's Lament - Extension of English language - French dominion in America - Landor's Penn and Peter- borough Duty of protecting and guarding language - Degeneracy of language and morals ...
... Milton - Hume's ex- postulation with Gibbon - Daniel's Lament - Extension of English language - French dominion in America - Landor's Penn and Peter- borough Duty of protecting and guarding language - Degeneracy of language and morals ...
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... Milton's filial and loyal affection for his mother - tongue to give it a share with the Latin in his prose - writings . * A poet , a contem- * As recently as the middle of the last century , Hume expostu- lated with Gibbon on his use of ...
... Milton's filial and loyal affection for his mother - tongue to give it a share with the Latin in his prose - writings . * A poet , a contem- * As recently as the middle of the last century , Hume expostu- lated with Gibbon on his use of ...
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... of the Scriptures ? " Let those who crave a statelier word than " begin , " learn that even Milton , with all his * Table Talk , vol . i . p . 177 . erudite diction , never , throughout all his poems , 9 ** THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 101.
... of the Scriptures ? " Let those who crave a statelier word than " begin , " learn that even Milton , with all his * Table Talk , vol . i . p . 177 . erudite diction , never , throughout all his poems , 9 ** THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 101.
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... Milton , Dryden , Cowper , Byron , Southey , and Wordsworth , have displayed high power as prose - writers . It is sometimes supposed that the laws of metrical lan- guage must , of necessity , produce a style more or less . artificial ...
... Milton , Dryden , Cowper , Byron , Southey , and Wordsworth , have displayed high power as prose - writers . It is sometimes supposed that the laws of metrical lan- guage must , of necessity , produce a style more or less . artificial ...
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