John Milton, EnglishmanChrist among the doctors - Academic exercise - Pastoral interlude - Italian journey - Paradise sort - Deeds above heroic - Heavenly muse - Milton Agonistes - Fair dismission___ |
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... tradition and domestic environment , 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 environment , 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 ...
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... tradition enjoyned , the minstrel , with his unshorn locks encircled with oak leaves , would sing of the prowess of heroes and of deeds that deserve imitation , and of Chaos and of the broad based foundations of the universe . The old ...
... tradition enjoyned , the minstrel , with his unshorn locks encircled with oak leaves , would sing of the prowess of heroes and of deeds that deserve imitation , and of Chaos and of the broad based foundations of the universe . The old ...
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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 , some- times 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 , some- times shortening syllables in ...
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