ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xvii
... eye had gone . He was warned that he must not use the other for book - work . Unfortunately this was just the time when the Commonwealth stood most in need of his services . If Milton had not written the first Defence he might have ...
... eye had gone . He was warned that he must not use the other for book - work . Unfortunately this was just the time when the Commonwealth stood most in need of his services . If Milton had not written the first Defence he might have ...
Page xx
... eyes wherewith to see it . Milton reflects many of the less gracious aspects of The italics are not Milton's . 2 Reason of Church Government , P. W. II . 481 . 3 Sonnet CXI . Puritanism , its intolerance , want of humour , one XX ...
... eyes wherewith to see it . Milton reflects many of the less gracious aspects of The italics are not Milton's . 2 Reason of Church Government , P. W. II . 481 . 3 Sonnet CXI . Puritanism , its intolerance , want of humour , one XX ...
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... eye with blear illusion , And give it false presentments , lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment , And put the damsel to suspicious flight ; Which must not be , for that's against my course : I , under fair pretence of ...
... eye with blear illusion , And give it false presentments , lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment , And put the damsel to suspicious flight ; Which must not be , for that's against my course : I , under fair pretence of ...
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... Eye me , blest Providence , and square my trial To my proportioned strength ! Shepherd , lead on . Enter the TWO ... eyes Be barred that happiness , might we but hear The folded flocks , penned in their wattled cotes , Or sound of ...
... Eye me , blest Providence , and square my trial To my proportioned strength ! Shepherd , lead on . Enter the TWO ... eyes Be barred that happiness , might we but hear The folded flocks , penned in their wattled cotes , Or sound of ...
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... eye , To save her blossoms , and defend her fruit , From the rash hand of bold Incontinence . You may as well spread out the unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den , And tell me it is safe , as bid me hope Danger will ...
... eye , To save her blossoms , and defend her fruit , From the rash hand of bold Incontinence . You may as well spread out the unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den , And tell me it is safe , as bid me hope Danger will ...
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