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... human ideals there enshrined . On the same page of Milton's Areopagitica there occur two very revealing phrases ; he speaks of the superiority of ' the old and elegant humanity of Greece ' to ' the barbarick pride of a Hunnish and ...
... human ideals there enshrined . On the same page of Milton's Areopagitica there occur two very revealing phrases ; he speaks of the superiority of ' the old and elegant humanity of Greece ' to ' the barbarick pride of a Hunnish and ...
Page 222
... human , more brutish . Evil , as Milton conceives it , is degraded spirituality . Here , then , Milton ( in his own ... humanity , about this refined and solitary progress in a kind of poetic spirituality ? And is there not , so to speak ...
... human , more brutish . Evil , as Milton conceives it , is degraded spirituality . Here , then , Milton ( in his own ... humanity , about this refined and solitary progress in a kind of poetic spirituality ? And is there not , so to speak ...
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... human virtue , merely human motives , merely human ideals , of the highest reaches of a merely human wit , of the aspirings of merely human minds . These things are in some ways noble , but they do not go far enough , they lack what for ...
... human virtue , merely human motives , merely human ideals , of the highest reaches of a merely human wit , of the aspirings of merely human minds . These things are in some ways noble , but they do not go far enough , they lack what for ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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