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... Milton's Minor Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Old English Ballads . Old Testament Selections . Palgrave's Golden Treasury . Parkman's Oregon Trail . Plutarch's Lives of Cęsar , Brutus , and Mark Antony . Poe's ...
... Milton's Minor Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Old English Ballads . Old Testament Selections . Palgrave's Golden Treasury . Parkman's Oregon Trail . Plutarch's Lives of Cęsar , Brutus , and Mark Antony . Poe's ...
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... Milton the elegance and harmony of Pope ; and nothing is wanting to render him , perhaps , the first poet in the English language , but to have written a little more . " And , to come nearer to our own times , Sir James Mackintosh ...
... Milton the elegance and harmony of Pope ; and nothing is wanting to render him , perhaps , the first poet in the English language , but to have written a little more . " And , to come nearer to our own times , Sir James Mackintosh ...
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... Milton here may rest , O Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . 60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a ...
... Milton here may rest , O Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . 60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a ...
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... Milton struck the deep - toned shell , 20 And , as the choral warblings round him swell , Meek Newton's self bends from his state sub- lime , 25 And nods his hoary head , and listens to the rhyme . III . AIR " Ye brown o'er - arching ...
... Milton struck the deep - toned shell , 20 And , as the choral warblings round him swell , Meek Newton's self bends from his state sub- lime , 25 And nods his hoary head , and listens to the rhyme . III . AIR " Ye brown o'er - arching ...
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... Milton had indeed a poet's charms : New to my taste , his Paradise surpassed The struggling efforts of my boyish tongue To speak its excellence . I danced for joy . I marvelled much that , at so ripe an age As twice seven years , his ...
... Milton had indeed a poet's charms : New to my taste , his Paradise surpassed The struggling efforts of my boyish tongue To speak its excellence . I danced for joy . I marvelled much that , at so ripe an age As twice seven years , his ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote