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... described as dancing around the altar of ' the mighty son of Saturn ' , attributes the origin of this fiction to the celestial harmony . In Il Penseroso , ' spare Fast ' , one of Melancholy's companions , is described as hearing the ...
... described as dancing around the altar of ' the mighty son of Saturn ' , attributes the origin of this fiction to the celestial harmony . In Il Penseroso , ' spare Fast ' , one of Melancholy's companions , is described as hearing the ...
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... its unity must arguably remain suspect . M. H. Abrams , in challenging various modern interpretations of the poem , is surely right to stress that it is ' clearly a dramatic lyric ' . Described by its author as a ' 28 Lycidas.
... its unity must arguably remain suspect . M. H. Abrams , in challenging various modern interpretations of the poem , is surely right to stress that it is ' clearly a dramatic lyric ' . Described by its author as a ' 28 Lycidas.
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... described as one ' Who sought no more than on his Foe to die ' ( V. 78 ) —where ' die ' , as Geoffrey Tillotson has explained , ' bears the contemporary sense of reach ( and pass ) the point of sexual consummation'.34 And when the ...
... described as one ' Who sought no more than on his Foe to die ' ( V. 78 ) —where ' die ' , as Geoffrey Tillotson has explained , ' bears the contemporary sense of reach ( and pass ) the point of sexual consummation'.34 And when the ...
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Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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