It's almost as if the flower passage is Milton's reward for having written the Saint Peter passage.

似乎描写花朵的段落是对于弥尔顿,描写过圣彼得的章落之后的奖赏。

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Milton naturally wrote his friend letters in impeccable Latin verse, and this one he seems to have composed almost immediately after having written, having completed,the Nativity Ode.

弥尔顿用毫无瑕疵的拉丁文很自然的给朋友写信，而且这首诗,是在弥尔顿一写完《圣诞清晨歌》,就拿去排版的。

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You'll remember that I mentioned several minutes ago that Milton appears -- literary historians, I think, have rightly seen the Milton who had written Lycidas as a different figure than the poet before having written Lycidas.

你们还记得我刚刚说过,精通文学的历史学家们，恰恰把写出了的弥尔顿,看作和之前的弥尔顿完全不同的一个人。

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