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... MILTON Life and Works . 1. L'Allegro 2. Satan and Beelzebub . 3. Invocation to Light Life and Works . PAGE iii ix ix xi xiii 17 * * * 7 2 2 3 % 101 III . JOSEPH ADDISON 105 105 1. Sir Roger at Coverley Hall 110 2. Sir Roger on the Bench ...
... MILTON Life and Works . 1. L'Allegro 2. Satan and Beelzebub . 3. Invocation to Light Life and Works . PAGE iii ix ix xi xiii 17 * * * 7 2 2 3 % 101 III . JOSEPH ADDISON 105 105 1. Sir Roger at Coverley Hall 110 2. Sir Roger on the Bench ...
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... Milton ; Addison and Irving , before Burke and Thackeray . - II . The sketch preceding each author , - " Life and Works , " besides being used as a regular reading lesson , should receive sufficient study to make the pupil familiar with ...
... Milton ; Addison and Irving , before Burke and Thackeray . - II . The sketch preceding each author , - " Life and Works , " besides being used as a regular reading lesson , should receive sufficient study to make the pupil familiar with ...
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... Milton , thou shouldst be with us at this hour ! DEF . 11. Irony is the use of words whose literal meaning is contrary to the real signification ; as , — Brutus is an honorable [ meaning not honorable ] man ! - DEF . 12. Ellipsis is the ...
... Milton , thou shouldst be with us at this hour ! DEF . 11. Irony is the use of words whose literal meaning is contrary to the real signification ; as , — Brutus is an honorable [ meaning not honorable ] man ! - DEF . 12. Ellipsis is the ...
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... MILTON . — Books are not absolutely dead things , but do con- tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay , they do pre- serve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that ...
... MILTON . — Books are not absolutely dead things , but do con- tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay , they do pre- serve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that ...
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... . Such lightness and ease in the manner , and such prodigious wealth and depth in the matter , are combined in no other writer . MILTON'S TRIBUTE . WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honored 32 CLASSIC ENGLISH READER .
... . Such lightness and ease in the manner , and such prodigious wealth and depth in the matter , are combined in no other writer . MILTON'S TRIBUTE . WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honored 32 CLASSIC ENGLISH READER .
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