John Milton: the Patriot and PoetPartridge & Oakey, 1852 - 235 pages |
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... Character of the noblest and sublimest of their countrymen , is the object of the Editor of this volume . No book upon this illustrious man has appeared hitherto so condensed , yet so full and various as this ; the true opinions of ...
... Character of the noblest and sublimest of their countrymen , is the object of the Editor of this volume . No book upon this illustrious man has appeared hitherto so condensed , yet so full and various as this ; the true opinions of ...
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... character often noticed from the combination . When the poet was born , his father had passed the middle age of life . Milton's name cannot be cited as illustrating the early dullness of genius ; all the accounts we have of his boyhood ...
... character often noticed from the combination . When the poet was born , his father had passed the middle age of life . Milton's name cannot be cited as illustrating the early dullness of genius ; all the accounts we have of his boyhood ...
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... character . " How soon hath Time , the subtle thief of youth , Stolen on his wing my three - and - twentieth year ? My hasting days fly on with full career , But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth . Perhaps my semblance might ...
... character . " How soon hath Time , the subtle thief of youth , Stolen on his wing my three - and - twentieth year ? My hasting days fly on with full career , But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth . Perhaps my semblance might ...
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... character of Milton , that he was furnished with an elegant letter of direction , introduc- tion , and advice , from the famous Sir Henry Wotton , himself worthy the name of a poet , who might well have furnished the study for L'Allegro ...
... character of Milton , that he was furnished with an elegant letter of direction , introduc- tion , and advice , from the famous Sir Henry Wotton , himself worthy the name of a poet , who might well have furnished the study for L'Allegro ...
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... character ; and for about the space of two months I again openly defended , as I had done before , the reformed religion , in the very metropolis of Popery . " He mentions his excursion to Lucca , his cross- ing the Apeninnes , his ...
... character ; and for about the space of two months I again openly defended , as I had done before , the reformed religion , in the very metropolis of Popery . " He mentions his excursion to Lucca , his cross- ing the Apeninnes , his ...
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