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Pagina 30
... action could have been accom- plished by any other means . Of episodes , I think there are only two , contained in Raphael's relation of the war in heaven , and Michael's prophetic account of the changes to happen in this world . Both ...
... action could have been accom- plished by any other means . Of episodes , I think there are only two , contained in Raphael's relation of the war in heaven , and Michael's prophetic account of the changes to happen in this world . Both ...
Pagina 33
... action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth , and tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise ...
... action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth , and tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise ...
Pagina 147
... action which in some ages would have made a saint , and perhaps in others a hero , and which , without any hyperbolical encomiums , must be allowed to be an instance of uncommon generosity , an act of complicated virtue ; by which he at ...
... action which in some ages would have made a saint , and perhaps in others a hero , and which , without any hyperbolical encomiums , must be allowed to be an instance of uncommon generosity , an act of complicated virtue ; by which he at ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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