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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... nature , who indulged a prejudice , that to us appears very extravagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of diftinction . to honour a very powerful historian ) even ...
... nature , who indulged a prejudice , that to us appears very extravagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of diftinction . to honour a very powerful historian ) even ...
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... nature . I have spoken , therefore , my own feel- ings , without bitterness and without timidity . I cannot fay that I fpeak of Johnson " fine ira " et ftudio , " as Tacitus faid of other great men ( very differently great ! ) for , in ...
... nature . I have spoken , therefore , my own feel- ings , without bitterness and without timidity . I cannot fay that I fpeak of Johnson " fine ira " et ftudio , " as Tacitus faid of other great men ( very differently great ! ) for , in ...
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... natural punishment of fuch verbal intemperance ; and the mitred follower of his fame and fortune , who has lately endeavoured to prop his reputa- tion by a tenderly partial , but a very imperfect life of his precipitate and quarrelfome ...
... natural punishment of fuch verbal intemperance ; and the mitred follower of his fame and fortune , who has lately endeavoured to prop his reputa- tion by a tenderly partial , but a very imperfect life of his precipitate and quarrelfome ...
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... natural weaknefs was attended with frequent pains of the head ; but as all thefe difadvantages could not reprefs my ardour for learning , my father took care to have me inftructed by various preceptors both at home and at school . " His ...
... natural weaknefs was attended with frequent pains of the head ; but as all thefe difadvantages could not reprefs my ardour for learning , my father took care to have me inftructed by various preceptors both at home and at school . " His ...
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... natural par- tiality to their departed mafter , affect to confider his malignity as exifting only in the prejudices of those who endeavour to counteract his injustice . A biographer of Milton ought therefore to regard it as his ...
... natural par- tiality to their departed mafter , affect to confider his malignity as exifting only in the prejudices of those who endeavour to counteract his injustice . A biographer of Milton ought therefore to regard it as his ...
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