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Page 122
... pleasures , although , as might be expected , in L'Allegro it is the day - time and in Il Penseroso the evening pleasures that preponderate ; and while the list of pleasures in L'Allegro begins at dawn , with the lark , that in Il ...
... pleasures , although , as might be expected , in L'Allegro it is the day - time and in Il Penseroso the evening pleasures that preponderate ; and while the list of pleasures in L'Allegro begins at dawn , with the lark , that in Il ...
Page 127
... pleasures of mirth and the pleasures of melancholy , and they have some relation , though not , perhaps , a very close one , to a well- established academic and poetic tradition of witty and paradoxical debate . Let us now return to Dr ...
... pleasures of mirth and the pleasures of melancholy , and they have some relation , though not , perhaps , a very close one , to a well- established academic and poetic tradition of witty and paradoxical debate . Let us now return to Dr ...
Page 130
... pleasures among country - dancers and story - tellers . His evening pleasures are essentially sociable : tournaments , masques , and comedies . And even when he is alone he looks around him with delighted attention and is taken out of ...
... pleasures among country - dancers and story - tellers . His evening pleasures are essentially sociable : tournaments , masques , and comedies . And even when he is alone he looks around him with delighted attention and is taken out of ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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