The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1970 - 490 pages |
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Page 343
... object , on which our author's powers were at this period exerted , his immortal epic , I shall forbear to speak till the time of its completion and publication . Some great pro- duction in the highest region of poetry had been , as we ...
... object , on which our author's powers were at this period exerted , his immortal epic , I shall forbear to speak till the time of its completion and publication . Some great pro- duction in the highest region of poetry had been , as we ...
Page 416
... object to the impropriety of the title , which would cer- tainly be more consistent with a work on the death and the resurrection of our blessed Lord , the extreme narrowness of the plan of the poem , the small proportion of it which is ...
... object to the impropriety of the title , which would cer- tainly be more consistent with a work on the death and the resurrection of our blessed Lord , the extreme narrowness of the plan of the poem , the small proportion of it which is ...
Page 421
... object of reasonable terror . In the 17th century , it could still hope for the reco- very of its lost dominion ; and , if it could not overturn thrones and distress nations by its excommunications and interdicts , it could disturb ...
... object of reasonable terror . In the 17th century , it could still hope for the reco- very of its lost dominion ; and , if it could not overturn thrones and distress nations by its excommunications and interdicts , it could disturb ...
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