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Page 149
... expressed himself as a trifle uncertain whether the Trinity was a necessary truth . This was enough to earn from the dreadful Francis Cheynell the insult of ' sneaking Socinian ' , which meant that he was nearer to common sense on the ...
... expressed himself as a trifle uncertain whether the Trinity was a necessary truth . This was enough to earn from the dreadful Francis Cheynell the insult of ' sneaking Socinian ' , which meant that he was nearer to common sense on the ...
Page 242
... expression . Saintsbury underlines this : ' in loftiness- sublimity of thought and majesty of expression , both sus- tained at almost superhuman pitch , he has no superior , and no rival except Dante ' . Perhaps , after all , it was an ...
... expression . Saintsbury underlines this : ' in loftiness- sublimity of thought and majesty of expression , both sus- tained at almost superhuman pitch , he has no superior , and no rival except Dante ' . Perhaps , after all , it was an ...
Page 243
... expressed . Phillips , himself a writer , goes on reasonably : ' pos- sibly the subject may not afford such variety of invention . But it is thought by the most judicious to be little or nothing inferior to the other for style and ...
... expressed . Phillips , himself a writer , goes on reasonably : ' pos- sibly the subject may not afford such variety of invention . But it is thought by the most judicious to be little or nothing inferior to the other for style and ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
Copyright | |
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