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... the bucolic and courtly are juxtaposed . Even without the echo ( " daisies pied ' ) from Love's Labour's Lost , one is conscious of a statelier landscape : Towers , and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted 5 L'ALLEGRO AND IL ...
... the bucolic and courtly are juxtaposed . Even without the echo ( " daisies pied ' ) from Love's Labour's Lost , one is conscious of a statelier landscape : Towers , and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted 5 L'ALLEGRO AND IL ...
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... lost poet - shepherd symbo- lizes . Here it is relevant to remember the example of Orpheus , whose head had brought to Lesbos ( cf. 1. 63 ) the divine gift of poetry , and whose story had commonly been interpreted as an al- legory of ...
... lost poet - shepherd symbo- lizes . Here it is relevant to remember the example of Orpheus , whose head had brought to Lesbos ( cf. 1. 63 ) the divine gift of poetry , and whose story had commonly been interpreted as an al- legory of ...
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... lost , absurd or discredited things to be found in ' the Lunar Sphere ' ( V. 113 ) . If the Baron is indeed a lover , his heart certainly merits no less equivocal an abode ! But Belinda's lock passes beyond this changeable and fickle ...
... lost , absurd or discredited things to be found in ' the Lunar Sphere ' ( V. 113 ) . If the Baron is indeed a lover , his heart certainly merits no less equivocal an abode ! But Belinda's lock passes beyond this changeable and fickle ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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