Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pages This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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... hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the allegory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shewn the way to hell , might have been allowed ; but they cannot ...
... hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the allegory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shewn the way to hell , might have been allowed ; but they cannot ...
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... Hell , Receive thy new possessor : one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what ...
... Hell , Receive thy new possessor : one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what ...
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Selections from Four Centuries James Thorpe. WILLIAM BLAKE THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL ( 1793 ) THOSE who restrain desire , do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained ; and the restrainer or reason usurps its ... HELL (1793)
Selections from Four Centuries James Thorpe. WILLIAM BLAKE THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL ( 1793 ) THOSE who restrain desire , do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained ; and the restrainer or reason usurps its ... HELL (1793)
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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