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«All but the wakeful nightingale; / She all night long her amorous descant sung.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
amorous, descant, descanted, nightingales, Sung, wakeful
«Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; / Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.»
«Oft he seems to hide his face, / But unexpectedly returns / And to his faithful champion hath in place / Bore witness gloriously.»
«What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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Command of the Air, replenish, replenished
«For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.»
«I hear the far-off curfew sound, / Over some wide-watered shore, / Swinging slow with sullen roar.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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curfew, far and wide, roar, swinging, watered
«He knew / Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.»
«The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, / Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
meteor, meteors, shone, streaming, The Imperial
«Methought I saw my late espous?d saint / Brought to me like Alcestis, from the grave.»
«What needs my Shakespeare, for his honoured bones, / The labour of an age in pil?d stones?»
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