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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Page 70
... Spirit is addressed to the audience ; a mode of communication so contrary to the na- ture of dramatick representation , that no precedents can sup- port it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long : an objection that may be made to ...
... Spirit is addressed to the audience ; a mode of communication so contrary to the na- ture of dramatick representation , that no precedents can sup- port it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long : an objection that may be made to ...
Page 82
... spirit , and sometimes animated body . When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marle , he has a body ; when , in his passage between hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the vacuity , and is supported by a ...
... spirit , and sometimes animated body . When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marle , he has a body ; when , in his passage between hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the vacuity , and is supported by a ...
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... spirit , ( his presentation of God is tinted with it ) —a spirit not less busy indeed in political than in theological and ecclesiasti- cal dispute , but carrying on the former almost always , more or less , in the guise of the latter ...
... spirit , ( his presentation of God is tinted with it ) —a spirit not less busy indeed in political than in theological and ecclesiasti- cal dispute , but carrying on the former almost always , more or less , in the guise of the latter ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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