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... Italian , though these poems have also been assigned to the earlier time of Elegies 7 and 5. “ O night- ingale , ” Milton's first English sonnet , is a quite artificial and quite charming presentation of zealous unsuccess in love ; he ...
... Italian , though these poems have also been assigned to the earlier time of Elegies 7 and 5. “ O night- ingale , ” Milton's first English sonnet , is a quite artificial and quite charming presentation of zealous unsuccess in love ; he ...
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... Italian dramma per musica . Among the boxes of books he sent home , one or two contained music , in- cluding some of Monteverdi , the chief of modern Italian composers and of pioneers in opera . After the operatic hospitality the young ...
... Italian dramma per musica . Among the boxes of books he sent home , one or two contained music , in- cluding some of Monteverdi , the chief of modern Italian composers and of pioneers in opera . After the operatic hospitality the young ...
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... Italian friends . In Italy Milton wrote three Latin epigrams in praise of the famous Neapolitan singer Leonora Baroni ( who in 1639 received the honor of a volume of Applausi from Italian poets ) , some verses comforting the poet ...
... Italian friends . In Italy Milton wrote three Latin epigrams in praise of the famous Neapolitan singer Leonora Baroni ( who in 1639 received the honor of a volume of Applausi from Italian poets ) , some verses comforting the poet ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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