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Page 105
It has been my principle , however , consistently with this plan , to recognise as
constantly and minutely as I could the duty of ascribing to preceding
commentators all that belongs to them . Wherever a comment has seemed to me
peculiarly ...
It has been my principle , however , consistently with this plan , to recognise as
constantly and minutely as I could the duty of ascribing to preceding
commentators all that belongs to them . Wherever a comment has seemed to me
peculiarly ...
Page 118
Todd and most of the editors print this not as an interrogation , but as a clause in
continuation of the four preceding . But , in the original editions , and in all till
Bishop Newton's in 1749 , there is a distinct point of interrogation at the end of
this ...
Todd and most of the editors print this not as an interrogation , but as a clause in
continuation of the four preceding . But , in the original editions , and in all till
Bishop Newton's in 1749 , there is a distinct point of interrogation at the end of
this ...
Page 135
Her stores , " i.e. Hell's ; the pronoun here preceding the noun . 181—186 . “ Each
on his rock transfixed , ” & c . The anticipation of some such form of increased
torment in Hell had already occurred to Satan : see Book I. 325-330 . 205 .
Her stores , " i.e. Hell's ; the pronoun here preceding the noun . 181—186 . “ Each
on his rock transfixed , ” & c . The anticipation of some such form of increased
torment in Hell had already occurred to Satan : see Book I. 325-330 . 205 .
Page 136
He does not speak till the subject has been discussed on different sides by three
preceding speakers , and he can observe the state of feeling produced . Moloch ,
the fierce and defiant , has advised open war ; he is reckless of all farther ...
He does not speak till the subject has been discussed on different sides by three
preceding speakers , and he can observe the state of feeling produced . Moloch ,
the fierce and defiant , has advised open war ; he is reckless of all farther ...
Page 146
... its parts , " and there is a reference to Night and Chaos as preceding all
Creation , and as being that out of the stuff and in the very body of which Creation
, in its two then existing dominions ( Hell beneath and the Starry Universe in the
centre ) ...
... its parts , " and there is a reference to Night and Chaos as preceding all
Creation , and as being that out of the stuff and in the very body of which Creation
, in its two then existing dominions ( Hell beneath and the Starry Universe in the
centre ) ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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