The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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Page 130
... present 66 passage , therefore , Milton adopts , and expresses poetically , the popular chemical belief of his time . If anywhere that belief might be true , and sulphur might be the generator of metals , surely it might be in Hell ...
... present 66 passage , therefore , Milton adopts , and expresses poetically , the popular chemical belief of his time . If anywhere that belief might be true , and sulphur might be the generator of metals , surely it might be in Hell ...
Page 132
... present application of Milton's postulate as to the expansibility or compressibility of the forms of the Spirits . The committee of leaders remaining in their own gigantic dimensions far within , it is only by some such reduction of the ...
... present application of Milton's postulate as to the expansibility or compressibility of the forms of the Spirits . The committee of leaders remaining in their own gigantic dimensions far within , it is only by some such reduction of the ...
Page 151
... present image makes the fact clearer . Only to such a side - view of the new Universe as would present it hanging totally clear of the Heaven to which it was mystically suspended would it appear like a star on the full - moon's edge ...
... present image makes the fact clearer . Only to such a side - view of the new Universe as would present it hanging totally clear of the Heaven to which it was mystically suspended would it appear like a star on the full - moon's edge ...
Page 156
... present botany , to which " Love - lies - bleeding " and other garden flowers belong . " With these " ; i.e. not with the 66 360 . crowns or the " amarant and gold " of line 352 , but with the " Elysian flowers " mentioned since . then ...
... present botany , to which " Love - lies - bleeding " and other garden flowers belong . " With these " ; i.e. not with the 66 360 . crowns or the " amarant and gold " of line 352 , but with the " Elysian flowers " mentioned since . then ...
Page 160
... present Cosmology , but the pre - Copernican , Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres of space wheeling with various motions round our Earth as their stationary centre ...
... present Cosmology , but the pre - Copernican , Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres of space wheeling with various motions round our Earth as their stationary centre ...
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