The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 34
... Nature " ( No. 303 ) . But Addison possessed literary principles , and he expressed them succinctly and absolutely : In Poetry , as in Architecture , not only the Whole , but the principal Members , and every Part of them , should be ...
... Nature " ( No. 303 ) . But Addison possessed literary principles , and he expressed them succinctly and absolutely : In Poetry , as in Architecture , not only the Whole , but the principal Members , and every Part of them , should be ...
Page 164
... Nature " —or God : Or Nature fail'd in mee , and left some part Not proof enough such Object to sustain , Of from my side subducting , took perhaps More than enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of Ornament , in outward show ...
... Nature " —or God : Or Nature fail'd in mee , and left some part Not proof enough such Object to sustain , Of from my side subducting , took perhaps More than enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of Ornament , in outward show ...
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... Nature , dispatches the remaining Part of it in Narration . He has devised a very handsome Reason for the Angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though doubtless the true Reason was the Difficulty which the Poet would have ...
... Nature , dispatches the remaining Part of it in Narration . He has devised a very handsome Reason for the Angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though doubtless the true Reason was the Difficulty which the Poet would have ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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