Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 páginas |
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... interest from its author , and accordingly there seems to be a propriety in introducing our remarks upon it with some notice of the character of Milton . We are not sure that we could have abstained from this subject , even if we had ...
... interest from its author , and accordingly there seems to be a propriety in introducing our remarks upon it with some notice of the character of Milton . We are not sure that we could have abstained from this subject , even if we had ...
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... interest in human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all classes of society , knits us by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic ...
... interest in human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all classes of society , knits us by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic ...
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... interest of these wonderful books . We see mind triumphant over the most terrible powers of nature . We see unutterable agony subdued by energy of soul . We have not indeed in Satan those bursts of passion , which rive the soul , as ...
... interest of these wonderful books . We see mind triumphant over the most terrible powers of nature . We see unutterable agony subdued by energy of soul . We have not indeed in Satan those bursts of passion , which rive the soul , as ...
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... interest fastens , in this and like cases , on what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with myste- rious pleasure , as on a miraculous manifes- tation of the power of mind . What chains us , as with a resistless ...
... interest fastens , in this and like cases , on what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with myste- rious pleasure , as on a miraculous manifes- tation of the power of mind . What chains us , as with a resistless ...
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... interest with which every living , thinking being ought to be regarded , and without which all other feelings tend to sin and pain . But there is another topic which we cannot leave untouched . From hell we flee to paradise , a region ...
... interest with which every living , thinking being ought to be regarded , and without which all other feelings tend to sin and pain . But there is another topic which we cannot leave untouched . From hell we flee to paradise , a region ...
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