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Pagina 48
Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V Adam and Eve driven
out of Paradise . -presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War ,
Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ...
Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V Adam and Eve driven
out of Paradise . -presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War ,
Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ...
Pagina 58
Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton , in Italy ,
which opened thus : “ Let the rainbow be the fiddlestick of the fiddle of heaven ” . “
It has been already shown , that the first conception was of a tragedy or mystery ...
Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton , in Italy ,
which opened thus : “ Let the rainbow be the fiddlestick of the fiddle of heaven ” . “
It has been already shown , that the first conception was of a tragedy or mystery ...
Pagina 70
In the mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a
very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells
us , “ that though our author had daily about him one or other to read , some ...
In the mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a
very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells
us , “ that though our author had daily about him one or other to read , some ...
Pagina 85
Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and
Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . ” Where there is
leisure for fiction , there is little grief In this poem there is no nature , for there is no
...
Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and
Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . ” Where there is
leisure for fiction , there is little grief In this poem there is no nature , for there is no
...
Pagina 86
Nothing can less display knowledge , or less exercise invention , than to tell how
a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without
any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is ...
Nothing can less display knowledge , or less exercise invention , than to tell how
a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without
any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is ...
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