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... Paradise Lost . " Ellwood is said to have remarked , on handing back the MS . of Paradise Lost to its author , " Thou hast said here much of Paradise lost ; what hast thou found to say of Paradise found ? " and that these words ...
... Paradise Lost . " Ellwood is said to have remarked , on handing back the MS . of Paradise Lost to its author , " Thou hast said here much of Paradise lost ; what hast thou found to say of Paradise found ? " and that these words ...
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... Paradise Lost " was definitely begun , and he was quite blind . Friends were pressed into his service for reading aloud the best authorities , not only in English , but in Hebrew , Greek , and Latin . The most remarkable of these was ...
... Paradise Lost " was definitely begun , and he was quite blind . Friends were pressed into his service for reading aloud the best authorities , not only in English , but in Hebrew , Greek , and Latin . The most remarkable of these was ...
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... Paradise Lost ' one has a feeling of spacious- ness such as no other poet gives . He showed from the first that ... Paradise Regained , though it has had many warm admirers ( Wordsworth and Coleridge among them ) , is inferior in ...
... Paradise Lost ' one has a feeling of spacious- ness such as no other poet gives . He showed from the first that ... Paradise Regained , though it has had many warm admirers ( Wordsworth and Coleridge among them ) , is inferior in ...
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