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... heavens , on the sun - warmed earth , and on earth's children , the throngs of young men and women in love with love and one another . The earth lures even the amorous gods from heaven ; and wanton Pan , Faunus , the satyrs , dryads ...
... heavens , on the sun - warmed earth , and on earth's children , the throngs of young men and women in love with love and one another . The earth lures even the amorous gods from heaven ; and wanton Pan , Faunus , the satyrs , dryads ...
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... heaven . " Any long poem , at least until recent times , demanded stylization , and Renaissance theory and practice , looking back to the highly stylized Virgil and Homer , to some degree codified devices for achieving epic magnificence ...
... heaven . " Any long poem , at least until recent times , demanded stylization , and Renaissance theory and practice , looking back to the highly stylized Virgil and Homer , to some degree codified devices for achieving epic magnificence ...
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... Heaven upon Earth ( 1606 ) Hall said what Milton would have largely endorsed : Never any heathen wrote more divinely ; never any philoso- pher more probably . Neither would I ever desire better master , if to this purpose I needed no ...
... Heaven upon Earth ( 1606 ) Hall said what Milton would have largely endorsed : Never any heathen wrote more divinely ; never any philoso- pher more probably . Neither would I ever desire better master , if to this purpose I needed no ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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