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Page 56
... Consider the pastoralism of stanza 8 : The Shepherds on the Lawn , Or e're the point of dawn , Sate simply chatting in a rustick row ; Full little thought they than , That the mighty Pan Was kindly com to live with them below ; Perhaps ...
... Consider the pastoralism of stanza 8 : The Shepherds on the Lawn , Or e're the point of dawn , Sate simply chatting in a rustick row ; Full little thought they than , That the mighty Pan Was kindly com to live with them below ; Perhaps ...
Page 57
... Consider , in the seventh stanza , the conceit about the sun hiding his head for shame : And though the shady gloom Had given day her room , The Sun himself withheld his wonted speed , And hid his head for shame , As his inferiour flame ...
... Consider , in the seventh stanza , the conceit about the sun hiding his head for shame : And though the shady gloom Had given day her room , The Sun himself withheld his wonted speed , And hid his head for shame , As his inferiour flame ...
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... consider this : although Comus is far more than a collection of fine passages , it does in fact contain numerous passages of far greater poetry than are to be found in all Jonson's or any other masques ; and the fineness of many of ...
... consider this : although Comus is far more than a collection of fine passages , it does in fact contain numerous passages of far greater poetry than are to be found in all Jonson's or any other masques ; and the fineness of many of ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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