The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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Page 104
... supposed to have directly at hand . Now , in such a process , every painstaking editor , even if he should go through it absolutely for himself , will necessarily stop , in most instances , at the very lines and passages at which ...
... supposed to have directly at hand . Now , in such a process , every painstaking editor , even if he should go through it absolutely for himself , will necessarily stop , in most instances , at the very lines and passages at which ...
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... supposed to have inspired the shepherd Moses , either on Mount Horeb , when he was keeping the flocks of his father- in - law Jethro , and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him out of the burning bush ( Exod . iii . 1 , 2 ) , or at a ...
... supposed to have inspired the shepherd Moses , either on Mount Horeb , when he was keeping the flocks of his father- in - law Jethro , and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him out of the burning bush ( Exod . iii . 1 , 2 ) , or at a ...
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... supposed intentional . Nor is it difficult to see the reason . By rime in the prose - preface he means the special kind of verse which consists in " the jingling sound of like endings , " whereas here by rhime he means verse in general ...
... supposed intentional . Nor is it difficult to see the reason . By rime in the prose - preface he means the special kind of verse which consists in " the jingling sound of like endings , " whereas here by rhime he means verse in general ...
Page 117
... supposed to begin . " The centre Earth , or the Earth's centre : " the utmost pole " is not the Earth's pole , but the pole of the entire Starry Universe . Homer ( Iliad , viii . 16 ) makes Tartarus just as far beneath Hades as Earth is ...
... supposed to begin . " The centre Earth , or the Earth's centre : " the utmost pole " is not the Earth's pole , but the pole of the entire Starry Universe . Homer ( Iliad , viii . 16 ) makes Tartarus just as far beneath Hades as Earth is ...
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... supposed a sea flowing round and round the habitable circle of Earth . 204. " night - foundered . " Milton has this exact word once besides- Comus , 483 : " Some one like us night - foundered here . " In both places he uses the word in ...
... supposed a sea flowing round and round the habitable circle of Earth . 204. " night - foundered . " Milton has this exact word once besides- Comus , 483 : " Some one like us night - foundered here . " In both places he uses the word in ...
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