John Milton, EnglishmanChrist among the doctors - Academic exercise - Pastoral interlude - Italian journey - Paradise sort - Deeds above heroic - Heavenly muse - Milton Agonistes - Fair dismission___ |
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... blindness Milton recalls only the hard work , the high ambition , and the delight which he took in literature , particularly poetry . It is in a defense of his personality against an attack which had made his blindness a visitation of ...
... blindness Milton recalls only the hard work , the high ambition , and the delight which he took in literature , particularly poetry . It is in a defense of his personality against an attack which had made his blindness a visitation of ...
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... blindness . I have already suggested that his first reaction on reading the Clamor was one of surrender . By now ... blindness ; but I cannot do it ; and I must submit to the affliction . It is not so wretched to be blind , as it is not ...
... blindness . I have already suggested that his first reaction on reading the Clamor was one of surrender . By now ... blindness ; but I cannot do it ; and I must submit to the affliction . It is not so wretched to be blind , as it is not ...
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... blindness , once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton saved himself in part by a great religious rationalization , the progress of which we have already witnessed ...
... blindness , once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton saved himself in part by a great religious rationalization , the progress of which we have already witnessed ...
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