The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... earth , & GOD in MAN . Great little one ! whose all - embracing birth Lifts earth to heaven , stoopes heav'n to earth . ( ' Nativity Hymn ' ) Even the neo - classical Drummond : In a poor cottage inn'd a Virgin maid , A weakling , did ...
... earth , & GOD in MAN . Great little one ! whose all - embracing birth Lifts earth to heaven , stoopes heav'n to earth . ( ' Nativity Hymn ' ) Even the neo - classical Drummond : In a poor cottage inn'd a Virgin maid , A weakling , did ...
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... Earth discards despised old age and yearns for the Sun's embrace : yearns , and is worthy too , for what more beau- tiful than Earth when she voluptuously bares her all - succouring breasts that breathe the balm of Araby , and from her ...
... Earth discards despised old age and yearns for the Sun's embrace : yearns , and is worthy too , for what more beau- tiful than Earth when she voluptuously bares her all - succouring breasts that breathe the balm of Araby , and from her ...
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... earth , and maketh it bring forth and bud , that it may give seed to the sower , and bread to the eater , so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth ( lv . 10 ) ... For as the earth bringeth forth her bud , and as the garden ...
... earth , and maketh it bring forth and bud , that it may give seed to the sower , and bread to the eater , so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth ( lv . 10 ) ... For as the earth bringeth forth her bud , and as the garden ...
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PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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