The Poetical Works of John MiltonMacmillan, 1911 - 625 pages |
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... mind surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third she joined the former two . " Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with Homer and Virgil ...
... mind surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third she joined the former two . " Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with Homer and Virgil ...
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... had the schemes of some of these dramas in his mind , Vondel's play was not then in existence ; but Andreini's was . Farther , there is evidence in Milton's prose pamphlets published about this time 12 INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST .
... had the schemes of some of these dramas in his mind , Vondel's play was not then in existence ; but Andreini's was . Farther , there is evidence in Milton's prose pamphlets published about this time 12 INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST .
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... mind had been recently occupied with thoughts of a great English poem ( whether an epic or a drama he had not , he hints , quite determined ) , and with what reluctance he felt himself drawn away from that design to engage in the ...
... mind had been recently occupied with thoughts of a great English poem ( whether an epic or a drama he had not , he hints , quite determined ) , and with what reluctance he felt himself drawn away from that design to engage in the ...
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... mind was stored with an amount of various and exact learning such as few other men of his age possessed ; so that , had he ceased then to acquire more , he would have still carried in his memory an enormous resource of material out of ...
... mind was stored with an amount of various and exact learning such as few other men of his age possessed ; so that , had he ceased then to acquire more , he would have still carried in his memory an enormous resource of material out of ...
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... mind full of miscellaneous lore wherewith its grand imagination might work — is not enough . Original as it is , original in its entire conception , and in every portion and passage , the poem is yet full of flakes we can express it no ...
... mind full of miscellaneous lore wherewith its grand imagination might work — is not enough . Original as it is , original in its entire conception , and in every portion and passage , the poem is yet full of flakes we can express it no ...
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