He might not have "made the word Miltonic mean sublime," but we can spare a little of the sublime to get some more of the beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
There is certainly something of what afterwards came to be called Miltonic in more than one passage of. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
And makes the word Miltonic mean sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
Keats broke the poem off because it was too 'Miltonic', and it is easy to see what he meant. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
But it is going far to appropriate the name of "Miltonic" to imitators of the earlier poems. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Teutonic this realization is certainly, but it does not lack for wit, grace, and "Miltonic" apotheosis, allowing the oxymoron. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The music of the Miltonic line was familiar to me. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
It was completely the Miltonic march and harmony. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
I feel quite elevated since I have become Miltonic. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference
The introduction has two plans and a description of the Miltonic universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
She is writing about Frankensteinian anonymity and thinking about Miltonic excess. From Wordnik.com. [Contributors] Reference
In the case of Pullman's trio of Miltonic fables, it has blurred almost to invisibility. From Wordnik.com. [11.03] Reference
The sudden Miltonic turn in Spock Two's precise phrasing made the awful vision all too vivid. From Wordnik.com. [Spock Must Die]
And at the Hoop alighted, famous inn is the pilloried example -- came from the Miltonic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Sri Aurobindo, evidently, maintains a Miltonic stance in Savitri and a Hegelian in The Life Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Esoteric and the academic] Reference
While deft at employing Miltonic syntax himself, Shelley also explores iteration and thus complexity. From Wordnik.com. [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference
Pullman's His Dark Materials series makes rather extensive use of Miltonic imagery, as interpreted by Blake. From Wordnik.com. [Tolkien on Lewis] Reference
Victor into an unambiguous father and identify his paternity with the authority of the Hebraic-Miltonic creator. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference
The Miltonic hypothesis contains assertions of a very definite character relating to the succession of living forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Tennyson's Milton, in alcaics, is famous, and has a well-marked Miltonic sound, but little of the sound of Horace's alcaics. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
From these white stalls the Tempter could have furnished forth the banquet the Miltonic description of which has been quoted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Theosophic thought, which in itself is far nobler and more poetic than the Miltonic, but she has not been strong enough to use it. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
What ties together Frankenstein's infantilism, the loathing the creature provokes, and the biblical and Miltonic account of creation?. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference
Warren's wish that the spirit should guide the pen of his medium, and accordingly our Ancient sat down, and tried to indite Miltonic lines. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference
Devil of Sussex rather than of Miltonic invention, he was not clever, and taking the candle light for the break of dawn, he fled and never resumed the labour. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
I leave you to consider how far, by any ingenuity of interpretation, by any stretching of the meaning of language, it can be brought into harmony with the Miltonic hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Is not his revisionist view but the narcissistic antithesis of the rejected Miltonic, and prior Coleridgean, perspective, too simply exchanging avian sadness for avian happiness?. From Wordnik.com. ['Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806] Reference
"You must admit there's nothing Miltonic about him, Soames.". From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
But, with regard to Milton and the Miltonic power, the case is far otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
It was Miltonic in the best sense; it was like the mightiest organ music put into form. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
When my father and she clashed, it was like the meeting of Miltonic thunderclouds over the Caspian. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Miltonic as the "Paradise Lost;" and the little songs of Shakespeare as wide and fresh as the dramas. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
That Miltonic wit, so granite-like and mordant, how well it goes with the magical whispers that "syllable men's names"!. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
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