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... immortality : Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The Nightingale's significance has been reversed , since the poet first saw her in elevated ignorance among the leaves , unaware of the ...
... immortality : Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The Nightingale's significance has been reversed , since the poet first saw her in elevated ignorance among the leaves , unaware of the ...
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... immortal : becoming to starving humanity the protective genius of the shore . And she is recognised as immortal by the poet , when her song passes out of the context of his own personal situation ( with its possessiveness and wish for a ...
... immortal : becoming to starving humanity the protective genius of the shore . And she is recognised as immortal by the poet , when her song passes out of the context of his own personal situation ( with its possessiveness and wish for a ...
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... immortal has failed ; the ' wild ecstasy ' of the leaf- fringed legend will never - by this approach - attain the magical immortality of the Nightingale among the leaves , pouring forth her soul abroad ' In such an ecstasy ' . And the ...
... immortal has failed ; the ' wild ecstasy ' of the leaf- fringed legend will never - by this approach - attain the magical immortality of the Nightingale among the leaves , pouring forth her soul abroad ' In such an ecstasy ' . And the ...
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Miltons Newenlightened World | 22 |
Milton and the Genius of the Shore | 40 |
Miltons Search for the Idea of the Beautiful | 76 |
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