The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes, 1869 - 552 pages |
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... mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principles . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every rea ...
... mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principles . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every rea ...
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... mankind , which they effected in part and woul . have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interposed . The principal actors are man in his greatest perfection , and woman in her highest beauty . Their enemies are the fallen angle ...
... mankind , which they effected in part and woul . have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interposed . The principal actors are man in his greatest perfection , and woman in her highest beauty . Their enemies are the fallen angle ...
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... mankind , what time his pride 35 Had cast him out from Heav'n , with all his host Of rebel Angels ; by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory ' bove his peers , He trusted to have equall'd the Most High , If he opposed ; and with ...
... mankind , what time his pride 35 Had cast him out from Heav'n , with all his host Of rebel Angels ; by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory ' bove his peers , He trusted to have equall'd the Most High , If he opposed ; and with ...
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... mankind they corrupted , to forsake God their Creator , and th ' invisible Glory of him that made them to transform Oft to the image of a brute , adorn'd With gay religions full of pomp and gold , And Devils to adore for Deities : 370 ...
... mankind they corrupted , to forsake God their Creator , and th ' invisible Glory of him that made them to transform Oft to the image of a brute , adorn'd With gay religions full of pomp and gold , And Devils to adore for Deities : 370 ...
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... mankind with everlasting night , and the destruc- tion of the world . To such superstitions Milton , in this passage , alludes.— OLS.STED'S LETTERS ON ASTRON . No where is the person of Satan described with more sul limity than in this ...
... mankind with everlasting night , and the destruc- tion of the world . To such superstitions Milton , in this passage , alludes.— OLS.STED'S LETTERS ON ASTRON . No where is the person of Satan described with more sul limity than in this ...
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