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Page 90
... Milton , who is always with us throughout his poem , amid the horrors of Hell and Chaos , the glories of Heaven , the sublime pastoral scenes of Eden , who pauses between Heaven and Hell to sing of his own blindness ; and is with us ...
... Milton , who is always with us throughout his poem , amid the horrors of Hell and Chaos , the glories of Heaven , the sublime pastoral scenes of Eden , who pauses between Heaven and Hell to sing of his own blindness ; and is with us ...
Page 117
... Milton's ultimate explanation of individual liberty is as incomprehensible as any doctrine of the " procession of the Holy Ghost " . What Milton did was to give by his poetic handling a new concreteness , vividness and dramatic power to ...
... Milton's ultimate explanation of individual liberty is as incomprehensible as any doctrine of the " procession of the Holy Ghost " . What Milton did was to give by his poetic handling a new concreteness , vividness and dramatic power to ...
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... Milton's style was to become more uniformly classical , but with the conceits departed alas ! also the tenderness of spirit that gives to this early poem an ineffable charm . 66 Milton's young friend Andrew Marvell imbibed no more of ...
... Milton's style was to become more uniformly classical , but with the conceits departed alas ! also the tenderness of spirit that gives to this early poem an ineffable charm . 66 Milton's young friend Andrew Marvell imbibed no more of ...
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