The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life of the Author and Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of MiltonMilner & Sowerby, 1865 - 537 pages |
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... virtue , bursts of scorn and indignation at the hollowness of the world , passages true to our moral nature , often escape in an immoral work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good ...
... virtue , bursts of scorn and indignation at the hollowness of the world , passages true to our moral nature , often escape in an immoral work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good ...
Page xv
... 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 mysterious pleasure , as on a miraculous manifestation of the power of mind . What chains us , as with a ...
... 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 mysterious pleasure , as on a miraculous manifestation of the power of mind . What chains us , as with a ...
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... virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feel- ing , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay he is not spirit - broken , His L'Allegro proves that he ...
... virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feel- ing , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay he is not spirit - broken , His L'Allegro proves that he ...
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... virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns , till ...
... virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns , till ...
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... virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me though just right , and the fix'd laws of heav'n , Did first create your leader ; next , free choice , With ...
... virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me though just right , and the fix'd laws of heav'n , Did first create your leader ; next , free choice , With ...
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