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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... when first I lay down in bed , and turned myself to either side , there used to shine out a copious glittering light from my shut eyes ; then that , as my sight grew less from day to day , colours proportionally duller would burst ...
... when first I lay down in bed , and turned myself to either side , there used to shine out a copious glittering light from my shut eyes ; then that , as my sight grew less from day to day , colours proportionally duller would burst ...
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He who receives Light from above , from the Fountain of Light , No other doctrine needs though granted true . The Greek philosophers , representing the highest that man's intellect , unaided , can achieve , are after all but groping in ...
He who receives Light from above , from the Fountain of Light , No other doctrine needs though granted true . The Greek philosophers , representing the highest that man's intellect , unaided , can achieve , are after all but groping in ...
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Samson invokes the light as Milton himself had done in Paradise Lost . O first - created Beam , and thou great Word , Let there be light , and light was over all , but without the sense of a compensatory irradiation of the spirit .
Samson invokes the light as Milton himself had done in Paradise Lost . O first - created Beam , and thou great Word , Let there be light , and light was over all , but without the sense of a compensatory irradiation of the spirit .
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| Title | John Milton, Englishman Bonanza paperback |
| Author | James Holly Hanford |
| Publisher | Crown Publishers, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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