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... friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours ...
... friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours ...
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... friend Henry Lawes , who taught music in the family , wrote this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes , bearing each a part in the repre- sentation . his ...
... friend Henry Lawes , who taught music in the family , wrote this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes , bearing each a part in the repre- sentation . his ...
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... after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by 14 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by 14 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... friends , possibly by her own desire , made earnest suit to have her company the remain- ing part of the summer ; which was granted , upon a promise of her return at Michaelmas . ' 6 Milton was too busy to much miss his wife ; he ...
... friends , possibly by her own desire , made earnest suit to have her company the remain- ing part of the summer ; which was granted , upon a promise of her return at Michaelmas . ' 6 Milton was too busy to much miss his wife ; he ...
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... friends on both sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in- jurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with ...
... friends on both sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in- jurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.