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" We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire. Who in their nightly watchful spheres Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 243
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Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in Paradise Lost

Paul Stevens - 1985 - 288 pages
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Milton Studies 20, Volume 2

James D. Simmonds - 1985 - 248 pages
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...flow throughout the remainder of Comus's speech, as the imagery serves to suggest: The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove Now to the Moon in...Shelves, Trip the pert Fairies and the dapper Elves. [115-18] It is a wavering morris dance, indeed; these irregularities form a striking contrast with...
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Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution

Michael Wilding - 1987 - 296 pages
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Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Writings

John Milton - 1988 - 282 pages
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The Batsford Book of English Poetry: Chaucer to Arnold

Barbara Lloyd Evans - 1989 - 1238 pages
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The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse

Alastair Fowler - 1991 - 888 pages
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...watchfull Splears, Lead in swift round the Months and Years. The Sounds, and Seas wit}) all their jinny drove Now to the Moon in wavering Morrice move, And on the Tawny Sands and Shelves, Trip tie pert Fairies and the dapper Elves; By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim, The WoodsNympls deckt with...
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Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War

Alan Hodgkin - 1994 - 432 pages
...zaffiro They are of the same supreme order of poetry as Milton's moonlit waves of the sea: The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove Now to the moon in wavering morrice move. Who could translate that in any language on earth without spoiling its essence?'2 To my mind, it was...
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Selected Poems

John Milton - 1993 - 130 pages
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