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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... give propriety to a Dedication , I have little to ap- prehend for the prefent , which has certainly the advantage of uniting the two . The kind and friendly manner in which you commended the firft edition of this Life might b alone ...
... give propriety to a Dedication , I have little to ap- prehend for the prefent , which has certainly the advantage of uniting the two . The kind and friendly manner in which you commended the firft edition of this Life might b alone ...
Página v
... 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 Gibbon himself , whom we both admired and loved for his literary and for his ...
... 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 Gibbon himself , whom we both admired and loved for his literary and for his ...
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... poets he often excites my tranfient indignation ; but as an eloquent teacher of morality he fills me with more laft- ing reverence and affection . His lives of the poets will probably give birth , His xiv DEDICATION .
... poets he often excites my tranfient indignation ; but as an eloquent teacher of morality he fills me with more laft- ing reverence and affection . His lives of the poets will probably give birth , His xiv DEDICATION .
Página xv
... give birth , in this or the next century , to a work of literary retaliation . Whenever a poet arifes with as large a portion of spleen towards the critical writers of paft ages , as Johnfon indulged to- wards the poets in his poetical ...
... give birth , in this or the next century , to a work of literary retaliation . Whenever a poet arifes with as large a portion of spleen towards the critical writers of paft ages , as Johnfon indulged to- wards the poets in his poetical ...
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... give ; In beechen goblets let their beverage shine ; Cool from the cryftal fpring their fober wine ; Their youth fhould pafs in innocence , fecure From ftain licentious , and in manners pure ; Pure as Heaven's minifter , arrayed in ...
... give ; In beechen goblets let their beverage shine ; Cool from the cryftal fpring their fober wine ; Their youth fhould pafs in innocence , fecure From ftain licentious , and in manners pure ; Pure as Heaven's minifter , arrayed in ...
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