The Complete Poetical Works of John MiltonScott, Webster and Geary, 1837 - 552 pages |
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... Satan seems never to oppress his faculties . This character of power runs through all Milton's works . His descriptions of nature shew a free and bold hand . He has no need of the minute , graphic skill , which we prize in Cowper or ...
... Satan seems never to oppress his faculties . This character of power runs through all Milton's works . His descriptions of nature shew a free and bold hand . He has no need of the minute , graphic skill , which we prize in Cowper or ...
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... Satan , burn in his own soul . Revenge , exasperated pride , consuming wrath , ambition though fallen , yet unconquered by the thunders of the Omnipotent , and grasping still at the empire of the universe , these form a picture more ...
... Satan , burn in his own soul . Revenge , exasperated pride , consuming wrath , ambition though fallen , yet unconquered by the thunders of the Omnipotent , and grasping still at the empire of the universe , these form a picture more ...
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John Milton. the interest felt in a spirit so transcendently evil as Satan , favours our sympathies with virtue . But our interest fastens , in this and like cases , on what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with ...
John Milton. the interest felt in a spirit so transcendently evil as Satan , favours our sympathies with virtue . But our interest fastens , in this and like cases , on what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with ...
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... Satan's per- son , which incites without shocking the imagina- tion , and aids us to combine in our conception of ... Satan is given us in the following lines , which , whilst too indefinite to provoke the scrutiny of the reason , fill ...
... Satan's per- son , which incites without shocking the imagina- tion , and aids us to combine in our conception of ... Satan is given us in the following lines , which , whilst too indefinite to provoke the scrutiny of the reason , fill ...
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... Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell , described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan ...
... Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell , described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan ...
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