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... Paradise Lost we read a book of universal knowl- edge . But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human in- terest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to ...
... Paradise Lost we read a book of universal knowl- edge . But original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human in- terest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to ...
Page 119
... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is nar- row : a dialogue without action can never please like an union of the narrative and dramatic ...
... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is nar- row : a dialogue without action can never please like an union of the narrative and dramatic ...
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... [ Paradise Lost , I , 599-602 . ] add two such lines as- And courage never to submit or yield And what is else not to be overcome .. [ Paradise Lost , I , 108-109 . ] ... and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine , the ...
... [ Paradise Lost , I , 599-602 . ] add two such lines as- And courage never to submit or yield And what is else not to be overcome .. [ Paradise Lost , I , 108-109 . ] ... and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine , the ...
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