John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... never had the strength to drink off a bottle like a prizefighter ; or because my hand has never grown horny with holding a plough - handle ; or because I was not a farm - hand at seven , and so never took a midday nap in the sun - last ...
... never had the strength to drink off a bottle like a prizefighter ; or because my hand has never grown horny with holding a plough - handle ; or because I was not a farm - hand at seven , and so never took a midday nap in the sun - last ...
Page 87
... never a more strangely compounded thing than Lycidas . Surely there was never a more astonishing in- stance of the wizardry of the imagination than this , where at a compelling word a hundred motley and warring suggestions are swept ...
... never a more strangely compounded thing than Lycidas . Surely there was never a more astonishing in- stance of the wizardry of the imagination than this , where at a compelling word a hundred motley and warring suggestions are swept ...
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... never succeeded , will never succeed , must never succeed , because it deprives man of his inalienable right to learn from books , as from other experience , the lessons he needs in order to maintain his freedom . Milton did not say ...
... never succeeded , will never succeed , must never succeed , because it deprives man of his inalienable right to learn from books , as from other experience , the lessons he needs in order to maintain his freedom . Milton did not say ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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