The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes, 1869 - 552 pages |
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... sense , their judiciousness , and the vast service they did to our literature , in setting the Paradise Lost on its proper level . " But modern periodicals , and moderr essays are fast crowding out the once familiar volumes of that ...
... sense , their judiciousness , and the vast service they did to our literature , in setting the Paradise Lost on its proper level . " But modern periodicals , and moderr essays are fast crowding out the once familiar volumes of that ...
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... sense through all the ten syllables of which it is composed ; and to this peculiarity is to be ascribed the surpassing har- mony of his numbers . 4. Eden : Here the whole is put for a part . It was the loss of Paradise only , the garden ...
... sense through all the ten syllables of which it is composed ; and to this peculiarity is to be ascribed the surpassing har- mony of his numbers . 4. Eden : Here the whole is put for a part . It was the loss of Paradise only , the garden ...
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... sense . 74. Thrice as far as it is from the centre of the earth ( which is the centre of the world , ( universe , ) according to Milton's system , IX . 103 , and X. 671 , ) · to the pole of the world ; for it is the pole of the universe ...
... sense . 74. Thrice as far as it is from the centre of the earth ( which is the centre of the world , ( universe , ) according to Milton's system , IX . 103 , and X. 671 , ) · to the pole of the world ; for it is the pole of the universe ...
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... sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest raised me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring , His utmost pow'r with adverse ...
... sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest raised me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring , His utmost pow'r with adverse ...
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... sense . His punishment was to be chained to a rock on Caucasus , where a vulture perpetually gnawed his liver ; from which he was finally rescued by Her . cules . This legend has formed the subject of the grandest of all the poetical ...
... sense . His punishment was to be chained to a rock on Caucasus , where a vulture perpetually gnawed his liver ; from which he was finally rescued by Her . cules . This legend has formed the subject of the grandest of all the poetical ...
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