Which of these four excerpts from john milton's poetry is in blank verse? a) instructions: select the correct text in the passage. which of these four excerpts from john milton's poetry is in blank verse? restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse, that on the secret top of oreb, or of sinai, didst inspire that shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, in the beginning how the heav'ns and earth (from paradise lost) . . b) in heav'n yclept euphrosyne, and by men, heart-easing mirth, whom lovely venus at a birth with two sister graces more to ivy-crowned bacchus bore (from "l'allegro") . . c) dissolve me into extasies, and bring all heav'n before mine eyes. and may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage, the hairy gown and mossy cell, (from "il penseroso") . . d) where i may sit and rightly spell of every star that heav'n doth shew, and every herb that sips the dew; till old experience do attain to somthing like prophetic strain. (from "il penseroso")

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion