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... 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 makes gracefully humorous use of the medieval fancy that love ...
... 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 makes gracefully humorous use of the medieval fancy that love ...
Page 92
... earlier humanists , except Rabelais - he was enough of a Baconian to give large importance to all branches of science . But otherwise Milton's ideal of education was far removed from that of Comenius and his English disciples , who had ...
... earlier humanists , except Rabelais - he was enough of a Baconian to give large importance to all branches of science . But otherwise Milton's ideal of education was far removed from that of Comenius and his English disciples , who had ...
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... earlier pages . The passage on his blindness - an affliction , enemies said , that was a divine judgment — is a partial parallel to the invocation to Light in Paradise Lost . In both Milton's feeling is dramatized and sublimated in an ...
... earlier pages . The passage on his blindness - an affliction , enemies said , that was a divine judgment — is a partial parallel to the invocation to Light in Paradise Lost . In both Milton's feeling is dramatized and sublimated in an ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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