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... prose . Yet it is far from deserving neglect . The prose - writing years were valuable , not only as a preparation for Paradise Lost , but in them- selves . Milton is one of our very greatest prose- writers , with a tremendous range of ...
... prose . Yet it is far from deserving neglect . The prose - writing years were valuable , not only as a preparation for Paradise Lost , but in them- selves . Milton is one of our very greatest prose- writers , with a tremendous range of ...
Page 60
... prose is stamped by the same undeviating contempt for hypocrisy , the same high idealism which is united with a firm desire to put into practice what has been imagined as admirable . There is indeed always a practical purpose , though ...
... prose is stamped by the same undeviating contempt for hypocrisy , the same high idealism which is united with a firm desire to put into practice what has been imagined as admirable . There is indeed always a practical purpose , though ...
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... prose a masculine roughness , as is shown in the sentence already quoted . " God does not principally take care for such cattle . " He is also capable of a sustained irony , less savage , certainly , than that of Swift , but both ...
... prose a masculine roughness , as is shown in the sentence already quoted . " God does not principally take care for such cattle . " He is also capable of a sustained irony , less savage , certainly , than that of Swift , but both ...
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