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...which justified so sage and solemn a spirit as Milton's in styling the lofty, grave tragedians^— C "In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence,...High actions and high passions best describing."* * Paradise Regained, book iv. ver. 261. When Milton thus spake, it was in immediate reference to the...

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...most regal argument." Now we remember and murmur to ourselves—from the Paradise Regained— " Thence what the lofty, grave Tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral wisdom, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they teach Of fate, and chance,...

...higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own. Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or...treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; Thence to the famous orators repair, High actions and high passions best describing; Those ancient,...