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Page 42
... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical Being . It is not only when the events are confessedly miraculous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet ...
... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical Being . It is not only when the events are confessedly miraculous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet ...
Page 132
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruc- tion , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruc- tion , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
Page 136
... reader , when he first opens his book , finds himself surprised by a new language . This novelty has been , by those who can find nothing wrong in Milton , imputed to his laborious endeavours after words suitable to the grandeur of his ...
... reader , when he first opens his book , finds himself surprised by a new language . This novelty has been , by those who can find nothing wrong in Milton , imputed to his laborious endeavours after words suitable to the grandeur of his ...
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