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Page iii
... never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can have no existence independently of virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him ...
... never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can have no existence independently of virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him ...
Page xxi
... an absolute monarch , can never maintain that steadfast , unswerving perseverance in well - doing , which religion and civil wisdom require . The faults into which , during these political controversies , EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxi.
... an absolute monarch , can never maintain that steadfast , unswerving perseverance in well - doing , which religion and civil wisdom require . The faults into which , during these political controversies , EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxi.
Page xxxvi
... never did , but might have done with good authority , since the Scrip- ture tells us that " all men are equal before God . " Then he is said to have " delighted himself with the belief that he had shortened Salmasius's life : " Milton ...
... never did , but might have done with good authority , since the Scrip- ture tells us that " all men are equal before God . " Then he is said to have " delighted himself with the belief that he had shortened Salmasius's life : " Milton ...
Page xxxix
... never so truly , as when the 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 ...
... never so truly , as when the 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 ...
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... never be accepted as an ade quate expression of Milton's ideas . Translation in the language of the present day would be more popular , because it would employ the technical political terms to which we are accustomed , and , in this way ...
... never be accepted as an ade quate expression of Milton's ideas . Translation in the language of the present day would be more popular , because it would employ the technical political terms to which we are accustomed , and , in this way ...
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