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Page 15
... thought it worth while to mention them . Until he went up to Cambridge at the age of seventeen the only personal influences on Milton of which we have definite record were those of his father , of his tutor Thomas Young , of the younger ...
... thought it worth while to mention them . Until he went up to Cambridge at the age of seventeen the only personal influences on Milton of which we have definite record were those of his father , of his tutor Thomas Young , of the younger ...
Page 94
... thought of Dryden , she said Dryden used sometimes to visit him , but he thought him no poet , but a good rimist : but this was before Dryden had composed his best poems . Of those poems in the Trinity College Manuscript which also ...
... thought of Dryden , she said Dryden used sometimes to visit him , but he thought him no poet , but a good rimist : but this was before Dryden had composed his best poems . Of those poems in the Trinity College Manuscript which also ...
Page 299
... thought , which Milton worked out on his scribble - page after he had transcribed his fair copy of the poem . When he was satisfied with it he drew a line between the last two lines of the passage I have quoted and wrote in the margin ...
... thought , which Milton worked out on his scribble - page after he had transcribed his fair copy of the poem . When he was satisfied with it he drew a line between the last two lines of the passage I have quoted and wrote in the margin ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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