Comus and Other PoemsOxford U.P., 1968 - 197 pages |
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Page 137
... beginning of the Divine Comedy . Attendant Spirit : In both surviving manuscripts the description is ' A Guardian Spirit , or Daemon ' . In Greek and Roman religion every individual had a daemon or genius , which guided his life , like ...
... beginning of the Divine Comedy . Attendant Spirit : In both surviving manuscripts the description is ' A Guardian Spirit , or Daemon ' . In Greek and Roman religion every individual had a daemon or genius , which guided his life , like ...
Page 161
... beginning of the Civil War in August 1642 , it was expected that the Royalist forces , based on Oxford , would attempt to take London ; and after the Battle of Edgehill on 23 October , when the military advantage remained with the King ...
... beginning of the Civil War in August 1642 , it was expected that the Royalist forces , based on Oxford , would attempt to take London ; and after the Battle of Edgehill on 23 October , when the military advantage remained with the King ...
Page 161
... beginning of May ( the season of love ) , and that he is therefore doomed to disappointment in love ; but he hopes to have better luck next year . Milton adds that the nightingale has had no reason not to favour him , for he is a ...
... beginning of May ( the season of love ) , and that he is therefore doomed to disappointment in love ; but he hopes to have better luck next year . Milton adds that the nightingale has had no reason not to favour him , for he is a ...
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Abraham Cowley Aldersgate Street Arcades Battle of Edgehill beauty Ben Jonson bird of hate blind bower Cambridge chastity Christ Christian Church Circe classical Comus Cromwell cuckoo dance dark daughter death divine doth ears earth Eclogue Elder Brother enchanted English epic eyes Faerie Queene faith father flower Genius give goddess gods Greek hath Heaven Henry Lawes Honigmann honour Il Penseroso Italian Jove King L'Allegro Lady Latin live London look Lord Lord Brackley Lycidas masque meaning medieval Milton moral Muse Nativity Ode night nightingale nymphs Orpheus Paradise Lost Parliament pastoral Penseroso Platonic poem poet poetic poetry praise Presbyterian priests Queen religion religious Renaissance rhyme Roman Royalist Sabrina shades shepherd sing solemn song sonnet sonnet 9 soul Spenser spheres spirits star swain sweet thee thou thought Turnham Green verse virgin virtue vision winds woods Wright young youth ΙΟ