John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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... tradition and domestic environments , but this environment itself reflected the larger setting of the times . His father , John Milton , Senior , was a self - made man of good but not aristocratic background . He was the son of a Roman ...
... tradition and domestic environments , but this environment itself reflected the larger setting of the times . His father , John Milton , Senior , was a self - made man of good but not aristocratic background . He was the son of a Roman ...
Page 104
... tradition of a preceding age : I was introduced by a certain recluse , with whom I had travelled from Rome , to John Baptista Manso , Marquis of Villa , a nobleman of distinguished rank and authority ; to whom Torquato Tasso , the ...
... tradition of a preceding age : I was introduced by a certain recluse , with whom I had travelled from Rome , to John Baptista Manso , Marquis of Villa , a nobleman of distinguished rank and authority ; to whom Torquato Tasso , the ...
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... tradition to the invention of the air to the lute . The idea was of Italian origin . Caccini , in the sixteenth century , had inveighed against musicians who mangle poetry by sometimes lengthening , sometimes shortening , syllables in ...
... tradition to the invention of the air to the lute . The idea was of Italian origin . Caccini , in the sixteenth century , had inveighed against musicians who mangle poetry by sometimes lengthening , sometimes shortening , syllables in ...
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