Now you're making me want to pick up my "Paradise Lost" and read it... this time for real. I mean I've started it a number of times (with my handy little "guide for dummies" handbook alongside, because I'm a ...) and only gotten through a small portion of it each time (the same portion every time). Ahhh, I have too many books I want to read, amongst other things.
Oh, it's so worth it (even if Milton's personal theology was suspect and Divorce Tracts wicked).
You should read passages aloud to your children; the younger ones especially will love the sound of certain lines, even if they don't understand the meaning.
I just ordered Lewis's preface to PL, and I put Paradise Regained on my TRL (Thanks, Gauntlets, for motivating me to read what I've been meaning to read for 5 years now...even if you did introduce me to a new (excellent) blog)
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as if I need another blog to read...
Now you're making me want to pick up my "Paradise Lost" and read it... this time for real. I mean I've started it a number of times (with my handy little "guide for dummies" handbook alongside, because I'm a ...) and only gotten through a small portion of it each time (the same portion every time).
Ahhh, I have too many books I want to read, amongst other things.
Oh, it's so worth it (even if Milton's personal theology was suspect and Divorce Tracts wicked).
You should read passages aloud to your children; the younger ones especially will love the sound of certain lines, even if they don't understand the meaning.
I just ordered Lewis's preface to PL, and I put Paradise Regained on my TRL (Thanks, Gauntlets, for motivating me to read what I've been meaning to read for 5 years now...even if you did introduce me to a new (excellent) blog)
Oh. I like this.
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