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... whole question is otiose . Milton presents an omnipotent , omniscient , all - foreknowing creator . We see him and his sup- porters struggling with opponents , and eventually winning , but at a terrible cost - the ruin of his Brave New ...
... whole question is otiose . Milton presents an omnipotent , omniscient , all - foreknowing creator . We see him and his sup- porters struggling with opponents , and eventually winning , but at a terrible cost - the ruin of his Brave New ...
Page 129
... whole . Thomson's Inferno has no meaning other than that it is meaninglessly hellish . The preacher in the dark cathedral of section XIV uses a parodic biblical language to proclaim an atheistical creed : And now at last authentic word ...
... whole . Thomson's Inferno has no meaning other than that it is meaninglessly hellish . The preacher in the dark cathedral of section XIV uses a parodic biblical language to proclaim an atheistical creed : And now at last authentic word ...
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... whole and what is that whole ? We can take Matthew Arnold's way out , and distinguish between poetry and history , poetry and fact , accepting for example the Bible as poetry , as emotion - inducing literature which produces in us ...
... whole and what is that whole ? We can take Matthew Arnold's way out , and distinguish between poetry and history , poetry and fact , accepting for example the Bible as poetry , as emotion - inducing literature which produces in us ...
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