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... tragedy 3 . 202 It may be affirmed without any encomiastick fervour that he brought to his poetick labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was ...
... tragedy 3 . 202 It may be affirmed without any encomiastick fervour that he brought to his poetick labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was ...
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... tragedy , beginning with the first ten lines of Satan's address to the Sun " . These Mysteries consist of I Phillips ' Milton , pp . 28 , 39 ; Works , iv . 1 ; post , MILTON , 142 . Milton says that it was his appoint- ment as Latin ...
... tragedy , beginning with the first ten lines of Satan's address to the Sun " . These Mysteries consist of I Phillips ' Milton , pp . 28 , 39 ; Works , iv . 1 ; post , MILTON , 142 . Milton says that it was his appoint- ment as Latin ...
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... tragedy or mystery of Paradise Lost there are two plans : ' The Persons . Michael . Chorus of Angels . Heavenly Love . Lucifer . } with the Serpent . Adam , Eve , Conscience . Death . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , with ...
... tragedy or mystery of Paradise Lost there are two plans : ' The Persons . Michael . Chorus of Angels . Heavenly Love . Lucifer . } with the Serpent . Adam , Eve , Conscience . Death . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Ignorance , with ...
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... tragedy 8. Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : ' Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven 9. ' It 2 Ante , MILTON , 14 . Works , i . 278. In his Grammar ...
... tragedy 8. Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : ' Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven 9. ' It 2 Ante , MILTON , 14 . Works , i . 278. In his Grammar ...
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... tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative but a dramatick work , which he is supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the King2 . 110 He long before ...
... tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative but a dramatick work , which he is supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the King2 . 110 He long before ...
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