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... history he evidently glances in the Paradise Lost , where Adam , incensed , and half despairing , re- proaches his guilty and now submissive consort with the fatal sin they had shared together : - " But for thee I had persisted happy ...
... history he evidently glances in the Paradise Lost , where Adam , incensed , and half despairing , re- proaches his guilty and now submissive consort with the fatal sin they had shared together : - " But for thee I had persisted happy ...
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... history shows , will prac- tically , if not in words , acknowledge the cogency of the arguments . And so far Milton has the suffrage of mankind in general . Perhaps , indeed , were the subject thoroughly examined , his views would be ...
... history shows , will prac- tically , if not in words , acknowledge the cogency of the arguments . And so far Milton has the suffrage of mankind in general . Perhaps , indeed , were the subject thoroughly examined , his views would be ...
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... history , laboured contemporaneously with Milton ; and their ideas failed not to exercise a certain influence over the public mind , though , whether considered with reference to their own or to fu- ture ages , this influence was much ...
... history , laboured contemporaneously with Milton ; and their ideas failed not to exercise a certain influence over the public mind , though , whether considered with reference to their own or to fu- ture ages , this influence was much ...
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... history is at hand to supply them . It has been shown that , in all his works , Milton stands forth the advocate of popular principles of government ; and these princi- ples having , at the Restoration , been abandoned both by the ...
... history is at hand to supply them . It has been shown that , in all his works , Milton stands forth the advocate of popular principles of government ; and these princi- ples having , at the Restoration , been abandoned both by the ...
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... history and character of this great work , that it would be altogether superfluous to travel again over the same ground . Milton's editors and biographers have displayed much zeal in excusing or palliating the faults into which he was ...
... history and character of this great work , that it would be altogether superfluous to travel again over the same ground . Milton's editors and biographers have displayed much zeal in excusing or palliating the faults into which he was ...
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