Comus and Other PoemsOxford U.P., 1968 - 197 pages |
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... ( Wright ) . 189-96 . This stanza represents the native religion of the Romans , characterized by family and tribal gods , the maintenance of whose ritual was essential to social life . 189. The reference is not to the Christian custom of ...
... ( Wright ) . 189-96 . This stanza represents the native religion of the Romans , characterized by family and tribal gods , the maintenance of whose ritual was essential to social life . 189. The reference is not to the Christian custom of ...
Page 124
... ( Wright ) . 46. Temperance in diet frees the mind from earthly desires and gives it insight into poetry and spiritual realities . 47-8 . See Lycidas , ll . 15–16 . 52-4 . The throne of God with fiery wheels , guided by Cherubim , comes ...
... ( Wright ) . 46. Temperance in diet frees the mind from earthly desires and gives it insight into poetry and spiritual realities . 47-8 . See Lycidas , ll . 15–16 . 52-4 . The throne of God with fiery wheels , guided by Cherubim , comes ...
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... ( Wright ) . 478. Apollo , the sun - god , was also the god of poetry , medicine , and philosophy ; for the Greeks music was linked to all these . ' In the " Phaedo " Socrates is represented as the servant of Apollo , and in the ...
... ( Wright ) . 478. Apollo , the sun - god , was also the god of poetry , medicine , and philosophy ; for the Greeks music was linked to all these . ' In the " Phaedo " Socrates is represented as the servant of Apollo , and in the ...
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