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Page 110
... less of an artist . Art Milton evidently had no eye for . He did have some appreciation of St Dunstan ; but little enough of the extraordinary intellectual achievement of Bede , a solitary Northern beacon across the wastes and waters of ...
... less of an artist . Art Milton evidently had no eye for . He did have some appreciation of St Dunstan ; but little enough of the extraordinary intellectual achievement of Bede , a solitary Northern beacon across the wastes and waters of ...
Page 129
... less a party of his Lords and Commons was lawful , was no resisting of superior powers ; they only were powers not to be resisted . But now that their censorious domineering is not suffered to be universal , truth and consci- ence to be ...
... less a party of his Lords and Commons was lawful , was no resisting of superior powers ; they only were powers not to be resisted . But now that their censorious domineering is not suffered to be universal , truth and consci- ence to be ...
Page 243
... less variety in the shorter poem and from the nature of the sub- ject . The subject itself dictates the decorum of a somewhat barer style ; but as a work of art it is hardly at all inferior . though it appeals less to the reader ...
... less variety in the shorter poem and from the nature of the sub- ject . The subject itself dictates the decorum of a somewhat barer style ; but as a work of art it is hardly at all inferior . though it appeals less to the reader ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
Copyright | |
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