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... allusions are presented with great visual power , the full power of the best Miltonic mixture of the precise and the vague . Nor does he perceive that the purpose and effect of these allusions , which are only - and greatly - heightened ...
... allusions are presented with great visual power , the full power of the best Miltonic mixture of the precise and the vague . Nor does he perceive that the purpose and effect of these allusions , which are only - and greatly - heightened ...
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... allusions , we might be reading , say , a critique of Byron's Cain . When a specialist in seventeenth - century literature can so interpret Milton , we need not invoke less learned witnesses to prove that the romantic notion of Satan ...
... allusions , we might be reading , say , a critique of Byron's Cain . When a specialist in seventeenth - century literature can so interpret Milton , we need not invoke less learned witnesses to prove that the romantic notion of Satan ...
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... allusion . At the beginning of Satan's first speech he greets his lieuten- ant , Beelzebub , with If thou beest he ... allusions are likely to add either a romantic or a humanizing note or often , as in the simile of Proserpine , both ...
... allusion . At the beginning of Satan's first speech he greets his lieuten- ant , Beelzebub , with If thou beest he ... allusions are likely to add either a romantic or a humanizing note or often , as in the simile of Proserpine , both ...
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Religious and Ethical Principles | 29 |
Characters and Drama | 58 |
The Poetical Texture | 88 |
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