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... never difficult poems , written in a style sometimes reminiscent of Spenser , sometimes of a very homespun George Herbert , became the most popular book of verse published during the seventeenth century . What is the relation of ...
... never difficult poems , written in a style sometimes reminiscent of Spenser , sometimes of a very homespun George Herbert , became the most popular book of verse published during the seventeenth century . What is the relation of ...
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... never die while he could move , So hung his destiny never to rot While he might still jogg on , and keep his trot , Made of sphear - metal , never to decay Untill his revolution was at stay . Time numbers motion , yet ( without a crime ...
... never die while he could move , So hung his destiny never to rot While he might still jogg on , and keep his trot , Made of sphear - metal , never to decay Untill his revolution was at stay . Time numbers motion , yet ( without a crime ...
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... never could he hope his waning to repair ? Ah ! never could he hope once to repair So great a wane , should not that new - born Sun Adopt him both his brother and his heir.1 It is indeed possible that Milton had this passage in mind ...
... never could he hope his waning to repair ? Ah ! never could he hope once to repair So great a wane , should not that new - born Sun Adopt him both his brother and his heir.1 It is indeed possible that Milton had this passage in mind ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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