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... tell you now The sources of " Comus . " What never yet was heard in tale or song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . " This claim to absolute originality must not be pressed . Milton was indebted in Comus , in some measure ...
... tell you now The sources of " Comus . " What never yet was heard in tale or song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . " This claim to absolute originality must not be pressed . Milton was indebted in Comus , in some measure ...
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... tell you that I now only owe you thanks for intimating unto me ( how modestly soever ) the true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed some good while before with singular delight ; having received it from our common friend Mr R ...
... tell you that I now only owe you thanks for intimating unto me ( how modestly soever ) the true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed some good while before with singular delight ; having received it from our common friend Mr R ...
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... tell you a short story , from the interest you have given me in your safety . At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni , an old Roman courtier in dangerous times ; having been steward to the Duca di Pagliano , who with ...
... tell you a short story , from the interest you have given me in your safety . At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni , an old Roman courtier in dangerous times ; having been steward to the Duca di Pagliano , who with ...
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... tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . Bacchus , that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine , After the Tuscan mariners transformed ...
... tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . Bacchus , that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine , After the Tuscan mariners transformed ...
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... tell - tale Sun descry Our concealed solemnity . Come , knit hands , and beat the ground In a light fantastic round . The Measure . Break off , break off ! I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground . Run to ...
... tell - tale Sun descry Our concealed solemnity . Come , knit hands , and beat the ground In a light fantastic round . The Measure . Break off , break off ! I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground . Run to ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charm chastity Circe classical Comus dance daughter dramatic Earl of Bridgewater earth Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite genius Germ 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 Mark Pattison 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 shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou thought Thyrsis verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth