A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 139
... Perhaps he unconsciously antedated the poem for the same reason . He need not have been ashamed of it even at the age of twenty , for despite its quaintly awkward title and the presence in it of strained images in the fashion of the day ...
... Perhaps he unconsciously antedated the poem for the same reason . He need not have been ashamed of it even at the age of twenty , for despite its quaintly awkward title and the presence in it of strained images in the fashion of the day ...
Page 300
... perhaps use a period . The next sentence- " And that strife was not inglorious " —thus becomes a con- tinuation of this one . Often a mere comma separates sen- tences grammatically independent : thou hast given me to possess Life in ...
... perhaps use a period . The next sentence- " And that strife was not inglorious " —thus becomes a con- tinuation of this one . Often a mere comma separates sen- tences grammatically independent : thou hast given me to possess Life in ...
Page 399
... perhaps because of his carelessness in print- ing Eikonoklastes . ' Samuel Simmons , to whom seventeen years later he gave the copy of Paradise Lost , was his suc- cessor , perhaps his son . " Of Milton's later prose publications The ...
... perhaps because of his carelessness in print- ing Eikonoklastes . ' Samuel Simmons , to whom seventeen years later he gave the copy of Paradise Lost , was his suc- cessor , perhaps his son . " Of Milton's later prose publications The ...
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