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Page 20
... close view of the battle itself in the sixth book ; and the martial demons , who charmed us in the shades of hell , lose some portion of their sublimity , when their artillery is discharged in the day- light of heaven . If we call ...
... close view of the battle itself in the sixth book ; and the martial demons , who charmed us in the shades of hell , lose some portion of their sublimity , when their artillery is discharged in the day- light of heaven . If we call ...
Page 214
... close to her the secret of his love and engagement in England . The effects of this disclosure , and all the intermediate events , are described with the same grace and delicacy . But we pass at once to the close of poor Julia's pure ...
... close to her the secret of his love and engagement in England . The effects of this disclosure , and all the intermediate events , are described with the same grace and delicacy . But we pass at once to the close of poor Julia's pure ...
Page 233
... close of the poem is as follows : Hush'd is the harp - the Minstrel gone . And did he wander forth alone ? Alone , in indigence and age , To linger out his pilgrimage ? No ; -close beneath proud Newark's tower , Arose the Minstrel's ...
... close of the poem is as follows : Hush'd is the harp - the Minstrel gone . And did he wander forth alone ? Alone , in indigence and age , To linger out his pilgrimage ? No ; -close beneath proud Newark's tower , Arose the Minstrel's ...
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