The Life of John Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley ...W. Porter, 1797 - 342 páginas |
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... equal to the kindness and the zeal of the intelligent enquirers ; but an unexpected favour from a literary friend , who is known to me only by his writings , has enabled me to throw , perhaps , a new ray of light on that inviting ...
... equal to the kindness and the zeal of the intelligent enquirers ; but an unexpected favour from a literary friend , who is known to me only by his writings , has enabled me to throw , perhaps , a new ray of light on that inviting ...
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... equal pertinacity ; nor have we want- ed men of learning and virtue , who , devoid of pre- judice and enthusiasm , both in politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits exactly in the balance of truth and reason . What ...
... equal pertinacity ; nor have we want- ed men of learning and virtue , who , devoid of pre- judice and enthusiasm , both in politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits exactly in the balance of truth and reason . What ...
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... equal in fcience , if not in genius , to the best musicians of his age . " Nor did his talents pafs without celebrity or reward . Philips relates , that for one of his devotional com- pofitions in forty parts , he was honoured with a ...
... equal in fcience , if not in genius , to the best musicians of his age . " Nor did his talents pafs without celebrity or reward . Philips relates , that for one of his devotional com- pofitions in forty parts , he was honoured with a ...
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... equal relish the delights of the feafon and of your converfation . I fhall withdraw myfelf for a little time from the buftle of the city to your porch in Suffolk , as to the famous portico of the Stoic , or the Tufculum of Cicero ...
... equal relish the delights of the feafon and of your converfation . I fhall withdraw myfelf for a little time from the buftle of the city to your porch in Suffolk , as to the famous portico of the Stoic , or the Tufculum of Cicero ...
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... equal truth and liberality , that the verfes , which Milton produced in his childhood , discovered both the fire and judgment of maturer life : a commen- dation that no impartial reader will be inclined to extenuate , who perufes the ...
... equal truth and liberality , that the verfes , which Milton produced in his childhood , discovered both the fire and judgment of maturer life : a commen- dation that no impartial reader will be inclined to extenuate , who perufes the ...
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