Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of LiteratureHaskell House, 1964 - 222 pages |
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... Dante and Milton were eminent pro- ducts of a living Christianity , and to each of them the Devil was a cardinal feature of his faith . Their Evil One was not a device , but a dogma ; and it is in their handling of him , as the ...
... Dante and Milton were eminent pro- ducts of a living Christianity , and to each of them the Devil was a cardinal feature of his faith . Their Evil One was not a device , but a dogma ; and it is in their handling of him , as the ...
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... Dante might have elected to describe his own moral sloth and spiritual backsliding as due to the handiwork of Satan . But on the contrary , he ascribes them to the three master passions of Lust , Ambition , and Avarice , which he ...
... Dante might have elected to describe his own moral sloth and spiritual backsliding as due to the handiwork of Satan . But on the contrary , he ascribes them to the three master passions of Lust , Ambition , and Avarice , which he ...
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... Dante a passage achieving this grand style better in the varied and elaborate fashion than the one just referred to . This brings under contribution almost as many sources of the Sublime as ever flowed on Ida , from the appeals to the ...
... Dante a passage achieving this grand style better in the varied and elaborate fashion than the one just referred to . This brings under contribution almost as many sources of the Sublime as ever flowed on Ida , from the appeals to the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR | 1 |
MILTONS KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC By WILLIAM HENRY | 11 |
A NOTE ON MILTONS SHORTER POEMS By ERNEST | 23 |
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