John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 156
... feel the same differ- ence Professor Tillyard feels between the two Defences , and our minds , like his , go forward to Samson Agonistes , in which both moods appear . For a time Samson , like Job , suffers despondency and ...
... feel the same differ- ence Professor Tillyard feels between the two Defences , and our minds , like his , go forward to Samson Agonistes , in which both moods appear . For a time Samson , like Job , suffers despondency and ...
Page 222
... feel some solace in thoughts of great classical predecessors : Those other two equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown , Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old . ( III . 33 ...
... feel some solace in thoughts of great classical predecessors : Those other two equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown , Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old . ( III . 33 ...
Page 298
... feel what it does to your mouth : your lips are tight- pursed , contracted , constricted by a styptic or astringent , as if you had alum in your mouth . So , too , Satan's body is constricted , arms clinging to ribs , legs entwining ...
... feel what it does to your mouth : your lips are tight- pursed , contracted , constricted by a styptic or astringent , as if you had alum in your mouth . So , too , Satan's body is constricted , arms clinging to ribs , legs entwining ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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