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... Book of Revelation . One can object to it if he believed it to be true , while accepting it for the poetry into which it is turned in Paradise Lost : - - The world shall burn , and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth , wherein ...
... Book of Revelation . One can object to it if he believed it to be true , while accepting it for the poetry into which it is turned in Paradise Lost : - - The world shall burn , and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth , wherein ...
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... Book of Revelation . Another such was an intermittent china - clay worker , with the good Puritan name of Rogers , who varied bouts of drinking with bouts of inspired Biblical trash . His daughter , a schoolteacher who became a ...
... Book of Revelation . Another such was an intermittent china - clay worker , with the good Puritan name of Rogers , who varied bouts of drinking with bouts of inspired Biblical trash . His daughter , a schoolteacher who became a ...
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... Book of Revelation became a major source for the earlier books of Paradise Lost , in particular for the three - day battle in Heaven . A recent critic tells us that the incidents of Paradise Lost were ' as profoundly true as the Book of ...
... Book of Revelation became a major source for the earlier books of Paradise Lost , in particular for the three - day battle in Heaven . A recent critic tells us that the incidents of Paradise Lost were ' as profoundly true as the Book of ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
Copyright | |
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