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... Once more , compare the lazar - house , in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost , with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
... Once more , compare the lazar - house , in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost , with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
Page 8
... once . The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Mil- almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo.cular , are wonderful creations . They are not ...
... once . The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Mil- almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- ton wrote in an age of philosophers and theo.cular , are wonderful creations . They are not ...
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... once to be imprisonment and torture in the cause of morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two public liberty . It seems inconceivable that characters altogether dissimilar are united in the martyr of freedom should have design - him ...
... once to be imprisonment and torture in the cause of morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two public liberty . It seems inconceivable that characters altogether dissimilar are united in the martyr of freedom should have design - him ...
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... once more . Their common cut Europe , this most important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a ...
... once more . Their common cut Europe , this most important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a ...
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... once mean and extravagant when misemployed by an imitator . The moral poems are in every point superior . That on Fortune , in particular , and that on Op- portunity exhibit both justness of thought and fertility of fancy . The Golden ...
... once mean and extravagant when misemployed by an imitator . The moral poems are in every point superior . That on Fortune , in particular , and that on Op- portunity exhibit both justness of thought and fertility of fancy . The Golden ...
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