A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 221
... Earth , the chain by which the visible universe depended from Heaven , or the spheres themselves which encircled the Earth and carried the planets and the fixed stars , as obligatory to the under- standing . They were simply imaginative ...
... Earth , the chain by which the visible universe depended from Heaven , or the spheres themselves which encircled the Earth and carried the planets and the fixed stars , as obligatory to the under- standing . They were simply imaginative ...
Page 222
... Earth as a center , with a shell of concentric spheres moving about it at varying rates of speed . Beyond this shell , of course , is Chaos . The spheres themselves are ten in num- ber . The first seven , beginning with the one nearest ...
... Earth as a center , with a shell of concentric spheres moving about it at varying rates of speed . Beyond this shell , of course , is Chaos . The spheres themselves are ten in num- ber . The first seven , beginning with the one nearest ...
Page 251
... Earth and in the self - reproaching dialogue of Adam and Eve after the Fall . In both poems Satan contrasts the horrible scene about him with the de- lights of his former home . He mentions to his followers the creation of Earth and man ...
... Earth and in the self - reproaching dialogue of Adam and Eve after the Fall . In both poems Satan contrasts the horrible scene about him with the de- lights of his former home . He mentions to his followers the creation of Earth and man ...
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