Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

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The Greeks had the most arrogant view of their relationship to the divinity, as I will tell you about later in the course, of any people I know.

希腊人傲慢地认为,他们与神的关系最为密切,关于这一点,我会在以后讲到,我所知的每个希腊人都是如此

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