A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 187
... whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting altera- tions . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of pre- serving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the burning lake and introduce the ...
... whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting altera- tions . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of pre- serving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the burning lake and introduce the ...
Page 222
... whole apparatus as encased in a hard , opaque , protective Ishell which was immovable.29 He uses the term " firma- ment " for the whole space of " elemental air " between Earth and the watery Crystalline Heaven . It would comprise all ...
... whole apparatus as encased in a hard , opaque , protective Ishell which was immovable.29 He uses the term " firma- ment " for the whole space of " elemental air " between Earth and the watery Crystalline Heaven . It would comprise all ...
Page 232
... whole metaphysics . He denied the almost universally accepted doctrine that God created the world out of noth- ing . The matter which he reduced to order was as eternal as spirit . It was indeed a part of the substance of God himself ...
... whole metaphysics . He denied the almost universally accepted doctrine that God created the world out of noth- ing . The matter which he reduced to order was as eternal as spirit . It was indeed a part of the substance of God himself ...
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