The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... never more be done , Did at midnight speak with the Sun ! O who will tell me , where He found thee at that dead and silent hour ? What hallow'd solitary ground did bear So rare a flower ; Within whose sacred leaves did lie The fulness ...
... never more be done , Did at midnight speak with the Sun ! O who will tell me , where He found thee at that dead and silent hour ? What hallow'd solitary ground did bear So rare a flower ; Within whose sacred leaves did lie The fulness ...
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... never happen , but the mourning must go on , year after year : Woe ! and Ab for Adonis ! the Muses who wail for Adonis , Chaunt their charms to Adonis . — But he lists not to their singing ; Not that he wills not to hear , but the ...
... never happen , but the mourning must go on , year after year : Woe ! and Ab for Adonis ! the Muses who wail for Adonis , Chaunt their charms to Adonis . — But he lists not to their singing ; Not that he wills not to hear , but the ...
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... never drove a field , and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representa- tion may be allegorical , the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it ...
... never drove a field , and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representa- tion may be allegorical , the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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