John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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Page 195
... light , combines and further sublimates earlier reflections on his blindness . He now implores rather than vaunts the inner light . The sense of deprivation in the second sonnet is voiced with a deeper beauty . Common sights and sounds ...
... light , combines and further sublimates earlier reflections on his blindness . He now implores rather than vaunts the inner light . The sense of deprivation in the second sonnet is voiced with a deeper beauty . Common sights and sounds ...
Page 242
... Light from above , from the Fountain of Light , No other doctrine needs , though granted true . The Greek philosophers , representing the highest that man's intellect , unaided , can achieve , are after all but groping in the dark ...
... Light from above , from the Fountain of Light , No other doctrine needs , though granted true . The Greek philosophers , representing the highest that man's intellect , unaided , can achieve , are after all but groping in the dark ...
Page 249
... light as Milton himself had done in Paradise Lost . O first - created Beam , and thou great Word , " Let there be light , " and light was over all ; but without the sense of a compensatory irradiation of the spirit . The contrast is ...
... light as Milton himself had done in Paradise Lost . O first - created Beam , and thou great Word , " Let there be light , " and light was over all ; but without the sense of a compensatory irradiation of the spirit . The contrast is ...
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