Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... learning , which likewise occurs very frequently . It is certain that both Homer and Virgil were masters of all the learning of their times , but it shows itself in their works , after an indirect and concealed manner . Milton seems ...
... learning , which likewise occurs very frequently . It is certain that both Homer and Virgil were masters of all the learning of their times , but it shows itself in their works , after an indirect and concealed manner . Milton seems ...
Page 167
... learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright , and out of that knowledge to love him , to imitate him , to be like him , as we may the nearest by pos- sessing our souls of true virtue , which ...
... learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright , and out of that knowledge to love him , to imitate him , to be like him , as we may the nearest by pos- sessing our souls of true virtue , which ...
Page 272
... learning which a reader requires in responding to a given allu- sion does not equal the learning Milton needed to find it . When we have understood this it will perhaps be possible to approach that feature of Milton's style which has ...
... learning which a reader requires in responding to a given allu- sion does not equal the learning Milton needed to find it . When we have understood this it will perhaps be possible to approach that feature of Milton's style which has ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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