The Life of Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an AppendixT. Cadell, junior, 1796 - 328 páginas |
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... nature , who indulged a prejudice , that to us appears very extra- vagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of dis- tinction to honour a very powerful historian ) even ...
... nature , who indulged a prejudice , that to us appears very extra- vagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of dis- tinction to honour a very powerful historian ) even ...
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... nature . I have , fpoken , therefore my own feelings , without bitterness and without timidity . I cannot say that I speak of Johnson “ fine ira " et ftudio , ” as Tacitus faid of other great men ( very differently great ! ) for , in ...
... nature . I have , fpoken , therefore my own feelings , without bitterness and without timidity . I cannot say that I speak 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 such verbal intemperance ; and the mitred follower of his fame and fortune , who has lately endea- voured to prop his reputation by a tenderly partial , but a very imperfect life of his precipitate and quarrelfome ...
... natural punishment of such verbal intemperance ; and the mitred follower of his fame and fortune , who has lately endea- voured to prop his reputation by a tenderly partial , but a very imperfect life of his precipitate and quarrelfome ...
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... natural weakness was attended with frequent pains of the head ; but as all these disadvantages could not reprefs my ardour for learn- ing , my father took care to have me inftructed by various preceptors both at home and at fchool ...
... natural weakness was attended with frequent pains of the head ; but as all these disadvantages could not reprefs my ardour for learn- ing , my father took care to have me inftructed by various preceptors both at home and at fchool ...
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... nature to another task , I have the use , as I may account , " but of my left hand . ” left hand . " Profe Works , vol . I. page 62 . < c ( C Such is the delineation that our author has given us of his own mind and motives in his ...
... nature to another task , I have the use , as I may account , " but of my left hand . ” left hand . " Profe Works , vol . I. page 62 . < c ( C Such is the delineation that our author has given us of his own mind and motives in his ...
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