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Page xiii
... the Epitaphium Damonis , the beautiful elegy in which he lamented the death of his school friend , Diodati . Lycidas was the last 1660. Milton abandons poe- try . of the English lyrics : the Epitaphium , which should LIFE OF MILTON . xiii.
... the Epitaphium Damonis , the beautiful elegy in which he lamented the death of his school friend , Diodati . Lycidas was the last 1660. Milton abandons poe- try . of the English lyrics : the Epitaphium , which should LIFE OF MILTON . xiii.
Page xxxi
... beautiful ; though I do not doubt that Milton knew Ben Jonson's Masque . The Latin Play , " Comus . " There is also a certain Latin play which may have given suggestions and which from its title deserves to be mentioned . It was called ...
... beautiful ; though I do not doubt that Milton knew Ben Jonson's Masque . The Latin Play , " Comus . " There is also a certain Latin play which may have given suggestions and which from its title deserves to be mentioned . It was called ...
Page xxxii
... . This beautiful pastoral was composed before 1625. It had been acted as a Court - drama , and representations were given in the 1 See p . 133 . London theatres in 1633 and 1634. The motive of the xxxii INTRODUCTION .
... . This beautiful pastoral was composed before 1625. It had been acted as a Court - drama , and representations were given in the 1 See p . 133 . London theatres in 1633 and 1634. The motive of the xxxii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxviii
... beautiful things where all is beautiful , if the unapproachable ' Sabrina fair ' did not come later , and were not sustained before and after , for nearly two hundred lines of pure nectar . " It was a happy inspiration which reserved ...
... beautiful things where all is beautiful , if the unapproachable ' Sabrina fair ' did not come later , and were not sustained before and after , for nearly two hundred lines of pure nectar . " It was a happy inspiration which reserved ...
Page xliv
... beautiful . Milton varies the eight - syllabled measure ( 1 ) by an extra syllable at the end of the line , ( 2 ) by in the octo- lines of only seven syllables in " falling , " syllabic mea- i.e. trochaic rhythm , with an extra syllable ...
... beautiful . Milton varies the eight - syllabled measure ( 1 ) by an extra syllable at the end of the line , ( 2 ) by in the octo- lines of only seven syllables in " falling , " syllabic mea- i.e. trochaic rhythm , with an extra syllable ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth