Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 - American Poetry (Collections) |
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... sense , but rather to bring individual freedom into con- formity with law . The slogans are Common Law , Com- mon Sense , Public Spirit . Its first enemy is the claim of the king to be free to govern as he please ; its second the claim ...
... sense , but rather to bring individual freedom into con- formity with law . The slogans are Common Law , Com- mon Sense , Public Spirit . Its first enemy is the claim of the king to be free to govern as he please ; its second the claim ...
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... Sense and Non - sense , never out nor in ; Free from all meaning , whether good or bad , And in one word , Heroically mad , He was too warm on Picking - work to dwell , But Faggotted his Notions as they fell , And , if they Rhim'd and ...
... Sense and Non - sense , never out nor in ; Free from all meaning , whether good or bad , And in one word , Heroically mad , He was too warm on Picking - work to dwell , But Faggotted his Notions as they fell , And , if they Rhim'd and ...
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... Sense , they humbly take upon content . Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : False Eloquence , like the Prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face ...
... Sense , they humbly take upon content . Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : False Eloquence , like the Prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
Copyright | |
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