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" Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind... "
Paradise Lost in Short: Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic - Page 35
by Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Margaret Seares - 1998 - 195 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1809 - 572 pages
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's Poem, all...depended the state of terrestrial nature, and the con* dition of all the future inhabitants of the globe. Of the other agents in the Poem, the chief...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated.dignifyj Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents arc the highest and noblest of human being*; the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded ortly by persons of derated dignity; Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents ate the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind j with whose actions the...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beiugs, the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elcmcnts consented ; on whose rectitude,...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude, nr deviation of will, depended the state of terrestrial nature, and the condition of all the future...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...to hope and peace. " Great events can be hastened, or retarded, only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented, and oil whose rectitude or deviation of will depended the fate of terrestrial nature, and the condition...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents arc the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind : with whose actions the...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem

John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...terrestrial nature, and the condition of all the future inhabiants of the globe. - Of other agents in the poem, the chief are such as it is irreverence to...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 476 pages
...restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all...will, depended the state of terrestrial nature, and tlio condition of all the future inhabitants of the globe. Of the other agents in the poem, the chief...
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