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... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence . I cannot ...
... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence . I cannot ...
Page 281
... kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of kingdoms , of whom he conceived that each might be represented zealous for his charge , without any intended opposition to the purposes ...
... kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of kingdoms , of whom he conceived that each might be represented zealous for his charge , without any intended opposition to the purposes ...
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... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
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