John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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... English poet . Nothing we know about him or the times in which he lived is really irrelevant to modern interest , and the most accidental details of his personal and literary career are worth the pains which an army of investigators has ...
... English poet . Nothing we know about him or the times in which he lived is really irrelevant to modern interest , and the most accidental details of his personal and literary career are worth the pains which an army of investigators has ...
Page 44
... English elegy , written perhaps in the following spring or summer . This is a real creative outburst , comparable to the verse epistle to Young , but discarding the artificiality of Latin in favour of a better love , the mother tongue ...
... English elegy , written perhaps in the following spring or summer . This is a real creative outburst , comparable to the verse epistle to Young , but discarding the artificiality of Latin in favour of a better love , the mother tongue ...
Page 101
... English- men from the Jesuits . Moryson , for example , advises travellers to see Rome and Naples first , as being the places where trouble was most likely to be in store for them . His point is that they will be spied on and reported ...
... English- men from the Jesuits . Moryson , for example , advises travellers to see Rome and Naples first , as being the places where trouble was most likely to be in store for them . His point is that they will be spied on and reported ...
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