The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... dark illusions are defeated in Comus , the same weltering waves and tangled hair of nymphs are transcended in ... darkness of Osiris , present an essentially aesthetic , not a moral contrast with the herald angels ' glittering ranks ...
... dark illusions are defeated in Comus , the same weltering waves and tangled hair of nymphs are transcended in ... darkness of Osiris , present an essentially aesthetic , not a moral contrast with the herald angels ' glittering ranks ...
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... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total Eclipse Without all hope of day ! ( 80-2 ) there is Empedocles ' opening lamentation : Weh ! einsam 157 THE SUBLIME ART.
... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total Eclipse Without all hope of day ! ( 80-2 ) there is Empedocles ' opening lamentation : Weh ! einsam 157 THE SUBLIME ART.
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... darkness of Samson has exactly the same meaning as the loneliness of Empedocles . In other passages of this very ... dark- ness of the hall you sought me out , you kindly one ! Nor yet unhoped for you came , but from the distance ...
... darkness of Samson has exactly the same meaning as the loneliness of Empedocles . In other passages of this very ... dark- ness of the hall you sought me out , you kindly one ! Nor yet unhoped for you came , but from the distance ...
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PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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