Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 |
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... shine these , for whom This glorious sight , when sleep hath shut all eyes ? To whom our general Ancestor repli'd . Daughter of God and Man , accomplisht Eve , Those have thir course to finish , round the Earth , By morrow Eevning , and ...
... shine these , for whom This glorious sight , when sleep hath shut all eyes ? To whom our general Ancestor repli'd . Daughter of God and Man , accomplisht Eve , Those have thir course to finish , round the Earth , By morrow Eevning , and ...
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... Quire of thy Celestial kind . May we presume to say , that at thy Birth , New joy was sprung in HEAV'N as well as here on Earth ? For sure the Milder Planets did combine On thy Auspicious Horoscope to shine , And ev❜n the 240 JOHN DRYDEN.
... Quire of thy Celestial kind . May we presume to say , that at thy Birth , New joy was sprung in HEAV'N as well as here on Earth ? For sure the Milder Planets did combine On thy Auspicious Horoscope to shine , And ev❜n the 240 JOHN DRYDEN.
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... shine so like a Star : The Gen'rals could not get together , Wanting that Influence , great in War . O Poet ! Thou had'st been discreeter , Hanging the Monarch's Hat so high ; If Thou had'st dubb'd thy Star , a Meteor , That did but ...
... shine so like a Star : The Gen'rals could not get together , Wanting that Influence , great in War . O Poet ! Thou had'st been discreeter , Hanging the Monarch's Hat so high ; If Thou had'st dubb'd thy Star , a Meteor , That did but ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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