ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xi
... nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die " -Reason of Church Government , P. W. II . 477 , 478 . The world has known many greater scholars in the technical LIFE OF ...
... nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die " -Reason of Church Government , P. W. II . 477 , 478 . The world has known many greater scholars in the technical LIFE OF ...
Page xiii
... natural that he should seek inspiration in the land where many English poets , from Chaucer to Shelley , have found it . Milton remained abroad some fifteen months . Originally he had intended to include Sicily and Greece in his travels ...
... natural that he should seek inspiration in the land where many English poets , from Chaucer to Shelley , have found it . Milton remained abroad some fifteen months . Originally he had intended to include Sicily and Greece in his travels ...
Page xvi
... nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Milton's writings on behalf of the Common- wealth . Between 1649 and 1660 Milton produced no less than eleven pamphlets . Several of these arose out of the publication of the famous Eikon ...
... nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Milton's writings on behalf of the Common- wealth . Between 1649 and 1660 Milton produced no less than eleven pamphlets . Several of these arose out of the publication of the famous Eikon ...
Page xix
... nature , insight into the problems of men's motives and emotions , grasp of the broader issues of the human tragedy , all these were essential to the author of an epic poem ; they could only be obtained through commerce with the world ...
... nature , insight into the problems of men's motives and emotions , grasp of the broader issues of the human tragedy , all these were essential to the author of an epic poem ; they could only be obtained through commerce with the world ...
Page xx
... nature is subdu'd To what it works in , like the dyer's hand . " Milton's genius was subdued in this way . compare him , the Milton of the great epics and of Samson Agonistes , with Homer or Shakespeare — and none but the greatest can ...
... nature is subdu'd To what it works in , like the dyer's hand . " Milton's genius was subdued in this way . compare him , the Milton of the great epics and of Samson Agonistes , with Homer or Shakespeare — and none but the greatest can ...
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