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... Celebrations of Olympian or Elysian images ( and Platonic or Neoplatonic ideas ) of eternal calm and joy . ( 2 ) Celebrations of divine " vertical " creative power and deliver- ance , the latter making any " lateral " threat seem ...
... Celebrations of Olympian or Elysian images ( and Platonic or Neoplatonic ideas ) of eternal calm and joy . ( 2 ) Celebrations of divine " vertical " creative power and deliver- ance , the latter making any " lateral " threat seem ...
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... celebration includes the human effort to celebrate , and Mil- ton increases his role as agonist in his own artistic matter . Al- though the subject of Christian triumph itself does not alter , he increasingly honors the hero who endures ...
... celebration includes the human effort to celebrate , and Mil- ton increases his role as agonist in his own artistic matter . Al- though the subject of Christian triumph itself does not alter , he increasingly honors the hero who endures ...
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... celebration . All stances join as the Edenic day - star seems to sink " beneath the wat'ry floor " only to recover ... celebrating the [ 118 ] THE SHADOW OF HEAVEN.
... celebration . All stances join as the Edenic day - star seems to sink " beneath the wat'ry floor " only to recover ... celebrating the [ 118 ] THE SHADOW OF HEAVEN.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
and Il Penseroso Arcades and At a Solemn | 21 |
Full Consort in On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 27 |
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