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... hand- some young man , wearing a sword he knew how to use , browsing among the stalls in St. Paul's Churchyard . A document that begins to be of service for these years is Milton's Commonplace Book ( discovered in 1874 ) , although a ...
... hand- some young man , wearing a sword he knew how to use , browsing among the stalls in St. Paul's Churchyard . A document that begins to be of service for these years is Milton's Commonplace Book ( discovered in 1874 ) , although a ...
Page 164
... hand from his , goes off in her pride and beauty " like a wood - nymph light . " The ambiguous " light " suggests both physical grace and mental unawareness . The poet's compassion is expressed directly and then in the picture of her ...
... hand from his , goes off in her pride and beauty " like a wood - nymph light . " The ambiguous " light " suggests both physical grace and mental unawareness . The poet's compassion is expressed directly and then in the picture of her ...
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... hand in hand , with wand'ring steps and slow , Through Eden took their solitary way . Of all Milton's perfect endings this is the most wonderful in its simplicity of texture and complexity of meaning . He does not now have the militant ...
... hand in hand , with wand'ring steps and slow , Through Eden took their solitary way . Of all Milton's perfect endings this is the most wonderful in its simplicity of texture and complexity of meaning . He does not now have the militant ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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