Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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... Paradise Lost there are two plans : Michael . The Persons . Chorus of Angels . Heavenly Love . Lucifer . Adam , with the Serpent . Eve , Conscience . Moses . The Persons . Divine Justice , Widsom , Heavenly Love . The Evening Star ...
... Paradise Lost there are two plans : Michael . The Persons . Chorus of Angels . Heavenly Love . Lucifer . Adam , with the Serpent . Eve , Conscience . Moses . The Persons . Divine Justice , Widsom , Heavenly Love . The Evening Star ...
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... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill ...
... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , " Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill ...
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... Paradise of Fools ; a fiction not in itself ill - imagined , but too ludicrous for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often ; his ... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions 130 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... Paradise of Fools ; a fiction not in itself ill - imagined , but too ludicrous for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often ; his ... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions 130 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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