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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Is it not , in spite of Katharine and Betty and Paradise Lost and Samson , still necessary for him to prove himself firm against the dangers of woman to which he once and only once succumbed ? Turning now to a less intimate but still ...
Is it not , in spite of Katharine and Betty and Paradise Lost and Samson , still necessary for him to prove himself firm against the dangers of woman to which he once and only once succumbed ? Turning now to a less intimate but still ...
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Richardson's story of Sir John Denham's enthusiasm for Paradise Lost , “ wet from the press , " may or may not be true , but it stands for the undoubted fact that the wits , in spite of politics , were already aware that the publication ...
Richardson's story of Sir John Denham's enthusiasm for Paradise Lost , “ wet from the press , " may or may not be true , but it stands for the undoubted fact that the wits , in spite of politics , were already aware that the publication ...
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Again Dryden denies Milton's Paradise Lost the title of a true epic : Milton's " event is not prosperous , like that of all other epic works ; his heavenly machines are many , and his human persons are but two .
Again Dryden denies Milton's Paradise Lost the title of a true epic : Milton's " event is not prosperous , like that of all other epic works ; his heavenly machines are many , and his human persons are but two .
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