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Page 141
... whole work , a perusal of the address to the reader will be found rewarding for all the familiar causes it espouses : it rails against prejudice and unexamined custom in matters of belief , denies the usual understanding of heresy , and ...
... whole work , a perusal of the address to the reader will be found rewarding for all the familiar causes it espouses : it rails against prejudice and unexamined custom in matters of belief , denies the usual understanding of heresy , and ...
Page 160
... whole business of constructing an intricate epic must have been made all the more difficult by his blindness , leading him to rely on amanuenses to record , correct , and read back to him . But just how long he spent composing the poem ...
... whole business of constructing an intricate epic must have been made all the more difficult by his blindness , leading him to rely on amanuenses to record , correct , and read back to him . But just how long he spent composing the poem ...
Page 170
... whole cultural critique is on hand . The beauty of his subject , which involved describing the whole discipline of life before and after the Fall of man ( as well as an equivalent for the fall of angels ) , was that it provided many ...
... whole cultural critique is on hand . The beauty of his subject , which involved describing the whole discipline of life before and after the Fall of man ( as well as an equivalent for the fall of angels ) , was that it provided many ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
Copyright | |
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