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... style . There are Doric columns , pilasters , architraves and arches . There is even sweet music to which the work rises from the ground , as once Thebes did to Amphion's lyre . Still , Milton compares the structure only to the temples ...
... style . There are Doric columns , pilasters , architraves and arches . There is even sweet music to which the work rises from the ground , as once Thebes did to Amphion's lyre . Still , Milton compares the structure only to the temples ...
Page 315
... style is one sure way to please , because style appeals not simply to the ear but to the mind . In an eloquent oration , Cicero argued , there should ' be metaphors of all sorts in great abundance , because these figures by virtue of ...
... style is one sure way to please , because style appeals not simply to the ear but to the mind . In an eloquent oration , Cicero argued , there should ' be metaphors of all sorts in great abundance , because these figures by virtue of ...
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... style accurately mirroring that self - image . As a stylist , throughout his career , Milton writes with two seemingly contradictory objectives : to establish his own stylistic identity and to subordinate that identity to the generic ...
... style accurately mirroring that self - image . As a stylist , throughout his career , Milton writes with two seemingly contradictory objectives : to establish his own stylistic identity and to subordinate that identity to the generic ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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