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Page 35
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
Page 118
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by per- sons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by per- sons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
Page 140
... original and peculiar . We must not , however , suffer the pride , which we assume as the countrymen of Butler , to make any encroachment upon justice , nor appropriate those honours which others have a right to share . The poem of ...
... original and peculiar . We must not , however , suffer the pride , which we assume as the countrymen of Butler , to make any encroachment upon justice , nor appropriate those honours which others have a right to share . The poem of ...
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