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  • Miltonically, or Pope-ishly, or Shakespearian-ally, and seldom with that racy literalness which characterizes Carlyle's occasional bits of German poetic version.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Hymen's robe is Miltonically 'saffron,' and the dearest petticoat in all literature -- not forgetting the

    Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906

  • For instance, Tennyson has in the Idylls something dainty and tourmente which excludes this natural propriety; and I have myself in 'Sohrab' something, not dainty, but tourmente and Miltonically ampoulle, which excludes it ....

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Version speaks of "him that made great lights": how Miltonically transformed those words already are in the two quoted lines!

    Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

  • _tourmenté_ and Miltonically _ampoullé_, which excludes it ....

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • [1] As occasions arise in these Sketches, when, merely for the purposes of intelligibility, it becomes requisite to call into notice such personal distinctions in my family as otherwise might be unimportant, I here record the entire list of my brothers and sisters, according to their order of succession; and Miltonically I include myself; having surely as much logical right to count myself in the series of my own brothers as Milton could have to pronounce Adam the goodliest of his own sons.

    Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

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