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... Story of the Year 1770 ” ) may be taken together as forming a new and somewhat enlarged edition of the older book . The addition in the present Volume consists of the last Essay . EDINBURGH : November 1874 . CONTENTS . I. THE THREE ...
... Story of the Year 1770 ” ) may be taken together as forming a new and somewhat enlarged edition of the older book . The addition in the present Volume consists of the last Essay . EDINBURGH : November 1874 . CONTENTS . I. THE THREE ...
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... story . He had to describe the ongoings of Angels , and at the same time to make one event follow another . It is compara- tively easy for Milton to sustain his conception of those superhuman beings as mere objects or phenomena -to ...
... story . He had to describe the ongoings of Angels , and at the same time to make one event follow another . It is compara- tively easy for Milton to sustain his conception of those superhuman beings as mere objects or phenomena -to ...
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... story in which these beings should be the agents , to exhibit these beings thinking , scheming , blundering , in such a way as to produce a likely succession of events , was enor- mously difficult . The difficulty was to make the course ...
... story in which these beings should be the agents , to exhibit these beings thinking , scheming , blundering , in such a way as to produce a likely succession of events , was enor- mously difficult . The difficulty was to make the course ...
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... story obliged the poet not to attempt to make the rate of causation among those beings as extraordinary as his description of them as phenomena . Such a feeling of inconsistency there is ; and yet Milton sustains his flight as nobly as ...
... story obliged the poet not to attempt to make the rate of causation among those beings as extraordinary as his description of them as phenomena . Such a feeling of inconsistency there is ; and yet Milton sustains his flight as nobly as ...
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... story is rendered impossible . The crushing conviction of the Divine omnipotence would have prevented them from rebelling with the alleged motive ; or , after they had rebelled , it would have prevented them from struggling with the ...
... story is rendered impossible . The crushing conviction of the Divine omnipotence would have prevented them from rebelling with the alleged motive ; or , after they had rebelled , it would have prevented them from struggling with the ...
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Page 84 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 10 - THE FAIRY BOOK; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Page 212 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 11 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 25 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our...
Page 111 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
Page 11 - Guesses at Truth. By Two BROTHERS. New Edition. The Cavalier and his Lady. Selections from the Works of the First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. With an Introductory Essay by EDWARD JENKINS, Author of " Ginx's Baby,
Page 89 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Page 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 86 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.