Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... relation to Adam and to Eve , and must partake of that good and evil which extend to them- selves . Of the machinery , so called from Oeòç åñò μnxavîs , by which is meant the occasional interposition of supernatural power , another ...
... relation to Adam and to Eve , and must partake of that good and evil which extend to them- selves . Of the machinery , so called from Oeòç åñò μnxavîs , by which is meant the occasional interposition of supernatural power , another ...
Page 119
... relation to the foot , and the sentence in relation to the line . No other metre allows of anything like the variety of blank verse in this regard , and no other metrist makes so splendid a use of its freedom . He never forgets the ...
... relation to the foot , and the sentence in relation to the line . No other metre allows of anything like the variety of blank verse in this regard , and no other metrist makes so splendid a use of its freedom . He never forgets the ...
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... relation to the lines immediately preceding and following , but in relation to every other line in the passage . To extract this passage of twelve lines is to mutilate it . I contrast with this passage the following . In what I have ...
... relation to the lines immediately preceding and following , but in relation to every other line in the passage . To extract this passage of twelve lines is to mutilate it . I contrast with this passage the following . In what I have ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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