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Page 53
... voice and by the taking of other voices into the poem Milton's elegy accu- mulates a peculiar range of questionings of Providence about the meaning of the death , touching the meditations of shepherds of true vocation in those times ...
... voice and by the taking of other voices into the poem Milton's elegy accu- mulates a peculiar range of questionings of Providence about the meaning of the death , touching the meditations of shepherds of true vocation in those times ...
Page 85
... voice of authority , but the cool control of the utterance is set against a recognition of inevitable barbarism . Not without heroic self - projection or excitement at danger , though careful not to claim too much fame , Milton specu ...
... voice of authority , but the cool control of the utterance is set against a recognition of inevitable barbarism . Not without heroic self - projection or excitement at danger , though careful not to claim too much fame , Milton specu ...
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... voice from heaven , saying , this is my beloved , in whom I am well pleased ' ( Matt . 3.17 ; Luke 3.22 ) . On the pinnacle Satan him- self signifies this unity in the action , by recalling the moment at which he hears the divine voice ...
... voice from heaven , saying , this is my beloved , in whom I am well pleased ' ( Matt . 3.17 ; Luke 3.22 ) . On the pinnacle Satan him- self signifies this unity in the action , by recalling the moment at which he hears the divine voice ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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