ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xvi
... Hence the endless and unedifying controversies into which he drifted ; controversies which wasted the most precious years of his life , warped , as some critics think , his nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Milton's ...
... Hence the endless and unedifying controversies into which he drifted ; controversies which wasted the most precious years of his life , warped , as some critics think , his nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Milton's ...
Page xxxiv
... Hence the significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755 . One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... Hence the significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755 . One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xlii
... Hence his blank verse unites the two qualities so difficult to reconcile , yet essential , namely freedom and form : the freedom which allows an easy , natural expression of the sense and a variety of rhythm that echoes all its shifting ...
... Hence his blank verse unites the two qualities so difficult to reconcile , yet essential , namely freedom and form : the freedom which allows an easy , natural expression of the sense and a variety of rhythm that echoes all its shifting ...
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... Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow , Fair silver - shafted queen for ever chaste , Wherewith she tamed the brinded lioness And spotted mountain - pard , but set at nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods and men 420 430 440 ...
... Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow , Fair silver - shafted queen for ever chaste , Wherewith she tamed the brinded lioness And spotted mountain - pard , but set at nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods and men 420 430 440 ...
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... Hence with thy brewed enchantments , foul deceiver ! Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizored falsehood and base forgery ? And wouldst thou seek again to trap me here With lickerish baits , fit to ensnare a brute ? Were it ...
... Hence with thy brewed enchantments , foul deceiver ! Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizored falsehood and base forgery ? And wouldst thou seek again to trap me here With lickerish baits , fit to ensnare a brute ? Were it ...
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