The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... light in darke ; and shutst in little roome , Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe . Herbert : O Thou , whose glorious , yet contracted light , Wrapt in nights mantle , stole into a manger ; Since my dark soul and brutish is thy right ...
... light in darke ; and shutst in little roome , Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe . Herbert : O Thou , whose glorious , yet contracted light , Wrapt in nights mantle , stole into a manger ; Since my dark soul and brutish is thy right ...
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... light begins to shine are the abuses of idolatry's half - light , deceptive beauty , usurping power . These need no annotation either : even if we don't know who Libyc Hammon is , the shrinking of his horn tells us , along with the ...
... light begins to shine are the abuses of idolatry's half - light , deceptive beauty , usurping power . These need no annotation either : even if we don't know who Libyc Hammon is , the shrinking of his horn tells us , along with the ...
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... light ' , and Milton's Michael does not take the sting out of death when he touches on this corporeal return , because it is far from being spiritual redemption : So mayst thou live , till like ripe Fruit thou drop Into thy Mothers lap ...
... light ' , and Milton's Michael does not take the sting out of death when he touches on this corporeal return , because it is far from being spiritual redemption : So mayst thou live , till like ripe Fruit thou drop Into thy Mothers lap ...
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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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