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... Nature Does Not Suffer Decay ) and De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit ( On the Platonic Idea , as Aristotle Understood It ) . Either may be the piece Milton spoke of in a letter to his friend Gill ( July 2 , 1628 ) as ...
... Nature Does Not Suffer Decay ) and De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit ( On the Platonic Idea , as Aristotle Understood It ) . Either may be the piece Milton spoke of in a letter to his friend Gill ( July 2 , 1628 ) as ...
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... nature in its normal order and serenity . Then the conventional mourning of nature for its dead singer turns into something else , the admis- sion that nature has another side , that life contains the seeds of death , early death - the ...
... nature in its normal order and serenity . Then the conventional mourning of nature for its dead singer turns into something else , the admis- sion that nature has another side , that life contains the seeds of death , early death - the ...
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... nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a climax in the simple and tender peri- phrasis , " Through the dear might of him that walked the waves , " an oblique reminder ...
... nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a climax in the simple and tender peri- phrasis , " Through the dear might of him that walked the waves , " an oblique reminder ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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