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... written ; Ben Jonson had done some of his great plays and launched the series of masques which Inigo Jones lavishly produced for the delectation of the court ; Donne , with his wife and multiplying family , was in his difficult middle ...
... written ; Ben Jonson had done some of his great plays and launched the series of masques which Inigo Jones lavishly produced for the delectation of the court ; Donne , with his wife and multiplying family , was in his difficult middle ...
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... written in the very month , or certainly within two months , of the composition of Lycidas , perhaps the greatest short poem in the language . The immediate occasion was , as everyone knows , the drowning of Edward King in a shipwreck ...
... written in the very month , or certainly within two months , of the composition of Lycidas , perhaps the greatest short poem in the language . The immediate occasion was , as everyone knows , the drowning of Edward King in a shipwreck ...
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... written with more care than most of Milton's previous tracts , and he was tactful in addressing parliament and praising its achievements ; yet these made all the more regrettable such backsliding on so great a matter as freedom of the ...
... written with more care than most of Milton's previous tracts , and he was tactful in addressing parliament and praising its achievements ; yet these made all the more regrettable such backsliding on so great a matter as freedom of the ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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