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Page 114
... persons who have their respective parts allotted in it To begin with the celestial persons. The guardian angels of Paradise are described as returning to heaven upon the fall of man, in order to approve their vigilance ; their arrival ...
... persons who have their respective parts allotted in it To begin with the celestial persons. The guardian angels of Paradise are described as returning to heaven upon the fall of man, in order to approve their vigilance ; their arrival ...
Page 117
... persons, come next nnder our consideration. Milton's art is no where more shewn than in his conducting the ... person who offended. Every one is apt to excuse a fault* which he himself might have fallen into. It was the excess ...
... persons, come next nnder our consideration. Milton's art is no where more shewn than in his conducting the ... person who offended. Every one is apt to excuse a fault* which he himself might have fallen into. It was the excess ...
Page 120
... persons, and particularly in that part where Death is exhibited as forming a bridge over the chaos ; a work ... person as entirely shadowy and unsubstantial, the heathens made statues of him, placed him in their temples, and ...
... persons, and particularly in that part where Death is exhibited as forming a bridge over the chaos ; a work ... person as entirely shadowy and unsubstantial, the heathens made statues of him, placed him in their temples, and ...
Page 121
... persons nailing down Prometheus to a rock ; tor which he has been justly censured by the greatest critics. I do not know any imaginary person made use of in a more sublime manner of thinking than that in one of the prophets, who ...
... persons nailing down Prometheus to a rock ; tor which he has been justly censured by the greatest critics. I do not know any imaginary person made use of in a more sublime manner of thinking than that in one of the prophets, who ...
Page 123
... person. There are some few whom I think peculiarly happy in it ; but it is a talent one cannot name in a man, especially when one considers, that it is never very graceful but where it is regarded by him who possesses it in the second ...
... person. There are some few whom I think peculiarly happy in it ; but it is a talent one cannot name in a man, especially when one considers, that it is never very graceful but where it is regarded by him who possesses it in the second ...
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