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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Page 157
At any rate he gives the alternative explanations when referring to his loss of sight in the passage already cited from Paradise Lost . So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs , Or dim suffusion veiled .
At any rate he gives the alternative explanations when referring to his loss of sight in the passage already cited from Paradise Lost . So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs , Or dim suffusion veiled .
Page 158
It is ten years , I think , more or less , since I felt my sight getting weak and dull , and at the same time my viscera generally out of sorts . In the morning , if I began , as usual , to read anything , I felt my eyes at once ...
It is ten years , I think , more or less , since I felt my sight getting weak and dull , and at the same time my viscera generally out of sorts . In the morning , if I began , as usual , to read anything , I felt my eyes at once ...
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the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent That he would ruin ( for I saw him strong ) The sacred truths to fable and old song ( So Samson groped the temple's post in spite , The world o'er whelming to revenge his sight ) .
the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent That he would ruin ( for I saw him strong ) The sacred truths to fable and old song ( So Samson groped the temple's post in spite , The world o'er whelming to revenge his sight ) .
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