The Portent of Milton: Some Aspects of His GeniusW. Laurie, 1958 - 148 pages |
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Page 65
... becomes embittered by worldly disasters ; they are not of his world , and in the calamities of his closing years Milton seems to have lost nothing of his genial charm . ' He was delightful company ' , says his daughter , Deborah , ' the ...
... becomes embittered by worldly disasters ; they are not of his world , and in the calamities of his closing years Milton seems to have lost nothing of his genial charm . ' He was delightful company ' , says his daughter , Deborah , ' the ...
Page 69
... becomes real only when it achieves abstraction in essential dream , the state of ecstasy , or sublimation of life beyond normal consciousness . Everyone , indeed , is instinctively in quest of this ecstatic abstraction ; some darkly and ...
... becomes real only when it achieves abstraction in essential dream , the state of ecstasy , or sublimation of life beyond normal consciousness . Everyone , indeed , is instinctively in quest of this ecstatic abstraction ; some darkly and ...
Page 111
... ( which desire is properly call'd love ) is stronger then death ... an intelligible flame ( which becomes ) more ardent by being fail'd of what in reason it lookt for . . . . Certainly such a 111 Philosophy of Divorce III.
... ( which desire is properly call'd love ) is stronger then death ... an intelligible flame ( which becomes ) more ardent by being fail'd of what in reason it lookt for . . . . Certainly such a 111 Philosophy of Divorce III.
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