A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 188
... fact alone would have deterred him . Quiller - Coach & believes the closing of the theaters in 1642 to have determined his change of plan , arguing that he had intended his " Adam Unparadised " for actual performance as a revived mys ...
... fact alone would have deterred him . Quiller - Coach & believes the closing of the theaters in 1642 to have determined his change of plan , arguing that he had intended his " Adam Unparadised " for actual performance as a revived mys ...
Page 306
... fact that both are ominous of impending calamity . But there is still more . Satan is a serpent- " Ophiuchus " means " holder of serpents " ; hence the comet is appro- priately said to fire the length of this particular constella- 306 A ...
... fact that both are ominous of impending calamity . But there is still more . Satan is a serpent- " Ophiuchus " means " holder of serpents " ; hence the comet is appro- priately said to fire the length of this particular constella- 306 A ...
Page 309
... fact that similes and figurative language generally are not at all evenly distributed in Milton's blank verse poems or even in Paradise Lost itself . In Books I and II they are scattered thick as stars . Thereafter they fall off in ...
... fact that similes and figurative language generally are not at all evenly distributed in Milton's blank verse poems or even in Paradise Lost itself . In Books I and II they are scattered thick as stars . Thereafter they fall off in ...
Contents
MATERIALS FOR MILTONS BIOGRAPHY | 1 |
THE PROSE WORKS | 68 |
THE MINOR POEMS | 132 |
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