Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry w…

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. ✨ 'Of Education' (1644)
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ✨ John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors, p.146
Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. ✨ 'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all. ✨ Samson Agonistes l. 293 (1671) See Housman 5; Milton 18
What is dark within me, illumine.
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. ✨ John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings o … ▶

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. ✨ 'Of Education' (1644)

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