The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes & Company, 1850 |
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Page 118
... whole creation , and of everything that is transacted in it , is a prospect worthy of Omniscience , and as much above that in which Virgil has drawn his Jupiter , as the Christian idea of the Supreme Being is more rational and sublime ...
... whole creation , and of everything that is transacted in it , is a prospect worthy of Omniscience , and as much above that in which Virgil has drawn his Jupiter , as the Christian idea of the Supreme Being is more rational and sublime ...
Page 139
... whole face of nature , that appeared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the simile illustrating this circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glorious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem ...
... whole face of nature , that appeared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the simile illustrating this circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glorious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem ...
Page 361
... whole poem.-A. The Ninth Book is that on which the whole fate and fall of man turns ; and so far is the most important . It is called the most tender . If the sub- mission to sensual human passions be tenderness , it is so ; taking the ...
... whole poem.-A. The Ninth Book is that on which the whole fate and fall of man turns ; and so far is the most important . It is called the most tender . If the sub- mission to sensual human passions be tenderness , it is so ; taking the ...
Contents
Apostrophe to Light | 1 |
The intercession of the Son of God in their behalf | 22 |
The Almighty Father surveying the whole creation | 118 |
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