John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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Page 148
... once beautiful and a rule of life . Milton's merits and defects in this are those of the Christian Renaissance , of which he is in many ways the perfect representative . His doctrine is the noble , classic one of the free individual ...
... once beautiful and a rule of life . Milton's merits and defects in this are those of the Christian Renaissance , of which he is in many ways the perfect representative . His doctrine is the noble , classic one of the free individual ...
Page 153
... once appealed to him as material for imaginative recreation . He evidently enjoys recalling the legends but feels , as a sober historian , a little uneasy about doing so . Such fables , he argues , have sometimes been found to contain ...
... once appealed to him as material for imaginative recreation . He evidently enjoys recalling the legends but feels , as a sober historian , a little uneasy about doing so . Such fables , he argues , have sometimes been found to contain ...
Page 190
... once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton ... once a means of renewing contact with the universal source of hope and comfort and an exercising of the skilled ...
... once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton ... once a means of renewing contact with the universal source of hope and comfort and an exercising of the skilled ...
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