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... thing for fanatics to do . As for our John Milton , he wrote verses which were considered marvelous in the home circle when he was about ten years old , and he was henceforward brought up deliberately to be a man of genius . What ...
... thing for fanatics to do . As for our John Milton , he wrote verses which were considered marvelous in the home circle when he was about ten years old , and he was henceforward brought up deliberately to be a man of genius . What ...
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... things that he should be himself attracted by beauty . Thus he duly went into raptures over the charms of the London girls . In May 1628 ( he was twenty ) he was violently in love -so he says in his seventh Latin elegy - with a young ...
... things that he should be himself attracted by beauty . Thus he duly went into raptures over the charms of the London girls . In May 1628 ( he was twenty ) he was violently in love -so he says in his seventh Latin elegy - with a young ...
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... things , dazzling offerings touch thy soul ( for love is often bought with pres- ents ) , she spreads before thee all the wealth she keeps hidden under the vast seas and inside the mountains . " United to this exquisite sensibility ...
... things , dazzling offerings touch thy soul ( for love is often bought with pres- ents ) , she spreads before thee all the wealth she keeps hidden under the vast seas and inside the mountains . " United to this exquisite sensibility ...
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... things " — for the powers he wishes to acquire are those of the bard ought to be chaste . And in the sixth elegy : Additur huic scelerisque vacans , et casta juventus , Et rigidi mores , et sine labe manus . Comus was to be the ...
... things " — for the powers he wishes to acquire are those of the bard ought to be chaste . And in the sixth elegy : Additur huic scelerisque vacans , et casta juventus , Et rigidi mores , et sine labe manus . Comus was to be the ...
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... things that came to pass When beldam Nature in her cradle was . . . ... The subject of Paradise Lost is not yet found , but the plans are drawn : the poet foresees vaguely a universal epic , describing the origin of the world and ...
... things that came to pass When beldam Nature in her cradle was . . . ... The subject of Paradise Lost is not yet found , but the plans are drawn : the poet foresees vaguely a universal epic , describing the origin of the world and ...
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