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Page 32
... original trade ; the rights of na- tions , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what ...
... original trade ; the rights of na- tions , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what ...
Page 37
... original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Vol- taire tells . a ...
... original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Vol- taire tells . a ...
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... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new ...
... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new ...
Page 47
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of im- mortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of im- mortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
Page 48
... original formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that ...
... original formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that ...
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