Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of LiteratureHaskell House, 1964 - 222 pages |
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... sonnet to Henry Lawes ( 1595-1662 ) . Whose tuneful and well - measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent , not to scan With Midas ears committing short and long . Recent historians have ...
... sonnet to Henry Lawes ( 1595-1662 ) . Whose tuneful and well - measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent , not to scan With Midas ears committing short and long . Recent historians have ...
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... sonnet to Cyriac Skinner : " Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward . " At Rome he saw Leonora Baroni . Devoted as he 150 MILTON HIS RELIGION AND POLEMICS ,
... sonnet to Cyriac Skinner : " Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward . " At Rome he saw Leonora Baroni . Devoted as he 150 MILTON HIS RELIGION AND POLEMICS ,
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... sonnet written then tells us how Milton would not snatch occasion by the forelock , but , a day - labourer under the great Taskmaster's eye , would abide the will of Heaven . In writing this passage of Paradise Regained ' he had not far ...
... sonnet written then tells us how Milton would not snatch occasion by the forelock , but , a day - labourer under the great Taskmaster's eye , would abide the will of Heaven . In writing this passage of Paradise Regained ' he had not far ...
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MILTONS KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC By WILLIAM HENRY | 11 |
A NOTE ON MILTONS SHORTER POEMS By ERNEST | 23 |
MILTON AND THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS By WILLIAM | 39 |
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