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Page 130
In the present 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 . Observe , too
...
In the present 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 . Observe , too
...
Page 132
There is a quaint ingenuity in 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 ...
There is a quaint ingenuity in 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 ...
Page 151
But the 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 ;
and ...
But the 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 ;
and ...
Page 156
Milton appropriates the name , but makes it that of no earthly flower . There is an
order of Amarantaceæ or Amaranth , in our present botany , to which " Love - lies
- bleeding " and other garden flowers belong . 360. “ With these ” : i.e. not with ...
Milton appropriates the name , but makes it that of no earthly flower . There is an
order of Amarantaceæ or Amaranth , in our present botany , to which " Love - lies
- bleeding " and other garden flowers belong . 360. “ With these ” : i.e. not with ...
Page 160
... or which at least he had thought it proper to adopt for his poem , was not our
present Cosmology , but the pre - Copernican , Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine
Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres
of space ...
... or which at least he had thought it proper to adopt for his poem , was not our
present Cosmology , but the pre - Copernican , Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine
Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres
of space ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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