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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... various and extenfive , are fufficiently familiar with those fingular compofitions ; and I am not a little gra- tified in the affurance that you think as I do , both of their blemishes and their beauties , and approve the ufe that I ...
... various and extenfive , are fufficiently familiar with those fingular compofitions ; and I am not a little gra- tified in the affurance that you think as I do , both of their blemishes and their beauties , and approve the ufe that I ...
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... various points of view ; in one moment it excites laugh- ter , in another indignation ; now it reminds us of the weapon of Goliah as described by Cowley ; " A fword fo great , that it was only fit " To cut off his great head that came ...
... various points of view ; in one moment it excites laugh- ter , in another indignation ; now it reminds us of the weapon of Goliah as described by Cowley ; " A fword fo great , that it was only fit " To cut off his great head that came ...
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... various examples of his feverity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our spleen than a stroke of injustice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I should be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was ...
... various examples of his feverity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our spleen than a stroke of injustice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I should be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was ...
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... various writings of those they wifhed to commemorate , each of these affectionate memorialists may be faid to have ... various various periods of life , may appear in a new 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... various writings of those they wifhed to commemorate , each of these affectionate memorialists may be faid to have ... various various periods of life , may appear in a new 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... various periods of life , may appear in a new and agreeable light , from the following collection and arrangement of the many little sketches , which his own hand has occafionally given us , of his paffions and pursuits . Several of ...
... various periods of life , may appear in a new and agreeable light , from the following collection and arrangement of the many little sketches , which his own hand has occafionally given us , of his paffions and pursuits . Several of ...
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