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... thing to be . May it not , then , be profitable to make their peculiarities and their differences a subject of study ? Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles have indeed been frequently contrasted in a vague , antithetic way ; for ...
... thing to be . May it not , then , be profitable to make their peculiarities and their differences a subject of study ? Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles have indeed been frequently contrasted in a vague , antithetic way ; for ...
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... things about this poem is that in it we see the grand imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And , though there can be no doubt that Goethe's Mephistopheles is conceived less in the ...
... things about this poem is that in it we see the grand imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And , though there can be no doubt that Goethe's Mephistopheles is conceived less in the ...
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... things happen in a higher . The mode of causation will be different from that with which they are acquainted . This is the difficulty with which Milton had to struggle ; or , rather , this is the difficulty with which he did not ...
... things happen in a higher . The mode of causation will be different from that with which they are acquainted . This is the difficulty with which Milton had to struggle ; or , rather , this is the difficulty with which he did not ...
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... thing to have done . If the poet ever flags in his conception of those superhuman beings as objects , it is when he finds it necessary to describe a multitude of them assembled together in some place ; and his usual device then is to ...
... thing to have done . If the poet ever flags in his conception of those superhuman beings as objects , it is when he finds it necessary to describe a multitude of them assembled together in some place ; and his usual device then is to ...
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... thing . Milton has overcome the difficulty . His conception of the Angels as physical agents does not fall beneath his conception of them as mere objects . In his description , for instance , in the sixth book , of the Angels tearing up ...
... thing . Milton has overcome the difficulty . His conception of the Angels as physical agents does not fall beneath his conception of them as mere objects . In his description , for instance , in the sixth book , of the Angels tearing up ...
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