"[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.""
"A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense."
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Source: Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”
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