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... performance of Salmasius was not more just than that rebellion should end in sla- dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal very ; that he who had justified the murder of eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the his ...
... performance of Salmasius was not more just than that rebellion should end in sla- dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal very ; that he who had justified the murder of eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the his ...
Page 37
... performance , while he had yet , perhaps , no settled design , and was stimulated only by such expectations as natu- rally arose from the survey of his attainments , and the consciousness of his powers . What he should undertake , it ...
... performance , while he had yet , perhaps , no settled design , and was stimulated only by such expectations as natu- rally arose from the survey of his attainments , and the consciousness of his powers . What he should undertake , it ...
Page 40
... infirmity and difficult utterance of speech ( which , to say truth , I doubt was the principal cause of excusing her ) the other two were condemned to the performance of reading for you put it in my head by the question 40 MILTON .
... infirmity and difficult utterance of speech ( which , to say truth , I doubt was the principal cause of excusing her ) the other two were condemned to the performance of reading for you put it in my head by the question 40 MILTON .
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... performances is the mask of " Comus , " in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of " Paradise Lost . " Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment ...
... performances is the mask of " Comus , " in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of " Paradise Lost . " Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment ...
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... performance , the second , among the pro- ductions of the human mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any. colony , or the foundation of an empire . His subject is the fate of worlds , the revolutions of heaven and of earth ...
... performance , the second , among the pro- ductions of the human mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any. colony , or the foundation of an empire . His subject is the fate of worlds , the revolutions of heaven and of earth ...
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