Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pages |
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... truth in the larger values , leaving the imagination to supply the more particular and personal details on the barest of hints from you : or you may fix your gaze exclusively on some vivid cluster of details , indicating their remoter ...
... truth in the larger values , leaving the imagination to supply the more particular and personal details on the barest of hints from you : or you may fix your gaze exclusively on some vivid cluster of details , indicating their remoter ...
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... truth his handling is tight , pedantic , and disagreeably hard . But when he comes to describe his epic personages , and his embodied visions , all is power , and vagueness , and gran- deur . His imagination , escaped from the narrow ...
... truth his handling is tight , pedantic , and disagreeably hard . But when he comes to describe his epic personages , and his embodied visions , all is power , and vagueness , and gran- deur . His imagination , escaped from the narrow ...
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... truth that his faith was based . In his treatise on Chris- tian Doctrine Milton boldly avows the principle of Biblical interpretation which controls his treatment of the subject mat- ter of Paradise Lost . The expressions of Scripture ...
... truth that his faith was based . In his treatise on Chris- tian Doctrine Milton boldly avows the principle of Biblical interpretation which controls his treatment of the subject mat- ter of Paradise Lost . The expressions of Scripture ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison SIX Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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