A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 51
... beginning of the said tragedy . The verses are these : O thou that with surpassing glory crown'd ! Look'st from thy sole dominion , like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I ...
... beginning of the said tragedy . The verses are these : O thou that with surpassing glory crown'd ! Look'st from thy sole dominion , like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I ...
Page 145
... beginning . The lighter verse follows , arranged apparently in chronological order , with this poem at its head . Had it not been composed before the epigram On Shakespeare and the two pieces on the Uni- versity Carrier I think he would ...
... beginning . The lighter verse follows , arranged apparently in chronological order , with this poem at its head . Had it not been composed before the epigram On Shakespeare and the two pieces on the Uni- versity Carrier I think he would ...
Page 251
... beginning the actual composi- tion of his epic . Junius lived in England until 1651 , when he received the Caedmon manuscript from Bishop Ussher , and must , Masson thinks , almost certainly have been an acquaintance of Milton's . There ...
... beginning the actual composi- tion of his epic . Junius lived in England until 1651 , when he received the Caedmon manuscript from Bishop Ussher , and must , Masson thinks , almost certainly have been an acquaintance of Milton's . There ...
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