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Milton

Memoir after dark

There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.

— Areopagitica

May 10, 2023 jonathanmorse
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Still govern thou my song, / Urania

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April 11, 2022 jonathanmorse
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Contemplate, in the garden, the serpent. Become, in thought, the serpent.

March 13, 2022 jonathanmorse
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That sing, and singing in their glory move

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 jonathanmorse
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And fast by hanging in a golden Chain / This pendant world

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Paradise Lost II.1051-52
June 2, 2020 jonathanmorse
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Penseroso

May 6, 2020 jonathanmorse
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Nibling

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Russet Lawns, and Fallows Gray,
Where the nibling flocks do stray

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 jonathanmorse
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In his garden, Marvell reads “Samson Agonistes”

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November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 jonathanmorse
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Penseroso Maybelline

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Hence vain deluding joyes
October 31, 2019 jonathanmorse
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Ascending, she remembers: “And long it was not after,

when I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.”

Then the light comes on.

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Milton, the Apology for Smectymnuus
August 3, 2019July 22, 2021 jonathanmorse
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