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John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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noun

A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

Writers often choose access when discussing complex ideas.

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minded

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

(originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.

In a Sentence

Do you mind if I smoke?

Origin

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Common Phrases

. mindedpeople mindedman mindedmen mindedperson mindedpersons mindedminded politicallyminded spiritually
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Poetry examples for minded

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a serious one because it is given to the study of the serious work of the

gravest and most high-minded of men; and it must be an enjoyable one

because it deals with the verse of the most musical of poets, and because

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ideals, and could imagine and delineate a woman who was both passionate

and high-minded. Diodorus (_Bibl. Hist._, lib. iii. p. 130) records the

exploits of Myrina, Queen of the Amazons, but it is probable that Byron

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