The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes, 1869 - 552 pages |
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... ancient classic . " To read it , therefore , intelli gently and advantageously , no small acquaintance is needed with . classical and various learning While large portions of the poem are sufficiently lucid for the com- prehension of ...
... ancient classic . " To read it , therefore , intelli gently and advantageously , no small acquaintance is needed with . classical and various learning While large portions of the poem are sufficiently lucid for the com- prehension of ...
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... ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full ...
... ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full ...
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... ancients , and all the abstruse , the laborious , the immature learning of those who again drew off the mantle of time from the ancient treasures of genius , and mingled with them their own crude conceptions and fantastic theories . He ...
... ancients , and all the abstruse , the laborious , the immature learning of those who again drew off the mantle of time from the ancient treasures of genius , and mingled with them their own crude conceptions and fantastic theories . He ...
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... ancients , but a heart also deeply impregnated with the divine truths which lay before him , it is no wonder that he has produced a compo . sition , on the whole , superior , to any that we have received from former ages . But he who ...
... ancients , but a heart also deeply impregnated with the divine truths which lay before him , it is no wonder that he has produced a compo . sition , on the whole , superior , to any that we have received from former ages . But he who ...
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... Fairy Queen , book i That with his largeness measured much land . " N 198. Tilanian , or Earth - born : Genus antiquum terræ , Titania pubes En . vi . 580 Briareos , or Typhon , whom the den By ancient 20 PARADISE LOST .
... Fairy Queen , book i That with his largeness measured much land . " N 198. Tilanian , or Earth - born : Genus antiquum terræ , Titania pubes En . vi . 580 Briareos , or Typhon , whom the den By ancient 20 PARADISE LOST .
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