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... present study . The primary danger seemed to involve a too rationalizing and therefore reductive approach to the poem , bred of a fanatical determination on one's own part to master the beautiful complexities of Milton's epic - the para ...
... present study . The primary danger seemed to involve a too rationalizing and therefore reductive approach to the poem , bred of a fanatical determination on one's own part to master the beautiful complexities of Milton's epic - the para ...
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... present day . It is as if the whole catalog has been pointing forward to this moment , when the obscenities of false religion permitted by or institutionalized in the state shall be seen flooding into present - day experience : In ...
... present day . It is as if the whole catalog has been pointing forward to this moment , when the obscenities of false religion permitted by or institutionalized in the state shall be seen flooding into present - day experience : In ...
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... present leader is not one of child to father ( even an adopted one ) but rather of worshiper to idol . The entire episode is enclosed within the consciousness of the narrator , Raphael , and the nature of his own participation in the ...
... present leader is not one of child to father ( even an adopted one ) but rather of worshiper to idol . The entire episode is enclosed within the consciousness of the narrator , Raphael , and the nature of his own participation in the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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