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Paradise Lost, Emended, With Notes and Preface [
Paradise Lost Emended With Notes and Preface Author:John Milton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: MR. MU device of supposing : My alteration is sho By the change I m. putable restoration, ; sweep! away the ridic The Saturday J emendations, which neglects to notice m can understand. Th of the Poem can on. simplest principles endeavours to effect least,. as this vapou however, come in co over his " pass of prc I am constrained I was. refreshing mys criticises some of tb forth from time to tr the self-respecting ( paramount, so that i any man." Look on 'cveinber i, 1884 . ss it by in despair, some taking consolation in the weak that " a line is missing here." They all print the line thus -- : Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars." vn as follows : -- .... and many more, too long [to tell], nbryos and idiots. Eremites and friars -- hite, black, and grey, with all their trumpery -- ; re [as] pilgrims roam." ake in the punctuation alone I unfold a clear and indis- [ unravel the puzzle that it has been to every editor, and ulous suggestion that any line or lines had dropped out. '". eview is now committed to a judgment upon my verbal is characterized by frivolity and trifling; but the writer y emended punctuation, the significance of which silence I e vital importance of my changes to a right understanding ly be denied where there is incapacity to comprehend the )f punctuation, or by a predetermined purpose that my much-needed changes shall not be recognized -- as far, at ring reviewer can arrest such recognition. I have not, ntact with the spirit of Milton to be cowed or craven-hearted ictice," his stratagems. to mention, that at the time I turned to read my reviewer elf with the pa...« less