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Page 68
... seem to rage most bitterly and everywhere to conspire upon our ruin " and with the more general need to show a decent and unified face to " the great Turk the common foe of Christendom . ” 30 In Books 1 and 2 of Paradise Lost , Milton ...
... seem to rage most bitterly and everywhere to conspire upon our ruin " and with the more general need to show a decent and unified face to " the great Turk the common foe of Christendom . ” 30 In Books 1 and 2 of Paradise Lost , Milton ...
Page 98
... seems at the moment of building , appears both inglorious and vulnerable beneath the consum- mate triumphal arch ... seem small , as the poem soars to the image of Christ in victory at the center : He in celestial panoply all armed Of ...
... seems at the moment of building , appears both inglorious and vulnerable beneath the consum- mate triumphal arch ... seem small , as the poem soars to the image of Christ in victory at the center : He in celestial panoply all armed Of ...
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... seem very fruitful to allegorize the War in Heaven in order to parallel it to specific battles in the civil wars ... seems reductive to the poetry and subsidiary to the theological meanings , there can hardly fail to be a remembrance ...
... seem very fruitful to allegorize the War in Heaven in order to parallel it to specific battles in the civil wars ... seems reductive to the poetry and subsidiary to the theological meanings , there can hardly fail to be a remembrance ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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