The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page xi
... whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with consummate EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
... whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with consummate EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
Page xii
... argument would effect it , to obtain legal deliverance from a woman unworthy , as all his biographers agree , ever to have been his wife . At this circumstance of his own history he evidently glances in the Paradise Lost , where Adam ...
... argument would effect it , to obtain legal deliverance from a woman unworthy , as all his biographers agree , ever to have been his wife . At this circumstance of his own history he evidently glances in the Paradise Lost , where Adam ...
Page xix
... arguments . And so far Milton has the suffrage of mankind in general . Perhaps , indeed , were the subject thoroughly examined , his views would be supported by many who , not comprehending the whole scope of his reasoning , now start ...
... arguments . And so far Milton has the suffrage of mankind in general . Perhaps , indeed , were the subject thoroughly examined , his views would be supported by many who , not comprehending the whole scope of his reasoning , now start ...
Page xxxix
... argument and his depraved temper met together : witness his Paradise Lost , where he makes the devil — who , though fallen , had not given heaven for lost - speak at that rate himself would have done of the son of this royal martyr ...
... argument and his depraved temper met together : witness his Paradise Lost , where he makes the devil — who , though fallen , had not given heaven for lost - speak at that rate himself would have done of the son of this royal martyr ...
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... arguments of his opponents like stubble . Hobbs , fond of giving utterance to epigrammatic remarks , observed of ... argument . Milton would utterly have confounded his cold logic , and routed and annihilated all the resources of his ...
... arguments of his opponents like stubble . Hobbs , fond of giving utterance to epigrammatic remarks , observed of ... argument . Milton would utterly have confounded his cold logic , and routed and annihilated all the resources of his ...
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