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... thought still more wonderful , have touched them , though the material body then bore no part therein . . . . ... ( Heaven and Hell , 1758 , translated 1778 , para . 440 ) But I cannot see that Blake's verse is an advance on this prose ...
... thought still more wonderful , have touched them , though the material body then bore no part therein . . . . ... ( Heaven and Hell , 1758 , translated 1778 , para . 440 ) But I cannot see that Blake's verse is an advance on this prose ...
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... thought that child's play The only fun he had . I've heard them say , though , They found a way to put a stop to it . The situation of the speaker is similar to that of the madman . Love has turned to derangement , life to confinement ...
... thought that child's play The only fun he had . I've heard them say , though , They found a way to put a stop to it . The situation of the speaker is similar to that of the madman . Love has turned to derangement , life to confinement ...
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... thoughts , accusing him of wishing her dead in order to create his immemorial dome : ' I died because you wanted me to die . Or thought you did ... sometimes . For I could read That silent thought in the way you looked At me ...
... thoughts , accusing him of wishing her dead in order to create his immemorial dome : ' I died because you wanted me to die . Or thought you did ... sometimes . For I could read That silent thought in the way you looked At me ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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