Selected Poetry and ProseMelbourne University Press, 1948 - 149 pages |
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... blind , poor , politically dis- credited , and for a time in danger of his life . In spite of these disabilities , he wrote the greatest English epic , one of the world's great epics , Paradise Lost . This was followed by Paradise ...
... blind , poor , politically dis- credited , and for a time in danger of his life . In spite of these disabilities , he wrote the greatest English epic , one of the world's great epics , Paradise Lost . This was followed by Paradise ...
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... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling , and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note ...
... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides , And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling , and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note ...
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... blind Fury . Strictly the Furies were beings dis- tinct from the Fates whom Milton here refers . Clotho turned the spindle that spun the thread of man's life , her sister Lachesis pointed out the length , and , at the destined moment ...
... blind Fury . Strictly the Furies were beings dis- tinct from the Fates whom Milton here refers . Clotho turned the spindle that spun the thread of man's life , her sister Lachesis pointed out the length , and , at the destined moment ...
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