The Life of Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley, EsqT. Cadell, junior, and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1796 - 328 páginas |
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... she may be enabled , with all her feverity , to attract " and delight . " Yet to fhew how apt a writer of verses is to accuse a profest critic of severity , we may both recollect , that when I had occasion to speak of your entertaining ...
... she may be enabled , with all her feverity , to attract " and delight . " Yet to fhew how apt a writer of verses is to accuse a profest critic of severity , we may both recollect , that when I had occasion to speak of your entertaining ...
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... she the while , whom only I adore , Was gone , and vanish'd to appear no more : In filent forrow I purfue my way ; I pause , I turn , proceed , yet wish to stay ; And while I follow her in thought , bemoan With tears my foul's delight ...
... she the while , whom only I adore , Was gone , and vanish'd to appear no more : In filent forrow I purfue my way ; I pause , I turn , proceed , yet wish to stay ; And while I follow her in thought , bemoan With tears my foul's delight ...
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... , on wings Of duty borne , might reach a loftier strain ! For thee , my father , howfoe'er it please , She frames this flender work ; nor know I aught That That may thy gifts more fuitably requite ; Tho ' THE LIFE OF MILTON . 31.
... , on wings Of duty borne , might reach a loftier strain ! For thee , my father , howfoe'er it please , She frames this flender work ; nor know I aught That That may thy gifts more fuitably requite ; Tho ' THE LIFE OF MILTON . 31.
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... She poffeffed , according to Philips , both wit and beauty . A novelist could hardly imagine circum- stances more fingularly diftreffing to fenfibility , than the fituation of the poet , if , as we may reasonably conjecture , he was ...
... She poffeffed , according to Philips , both wit and beauty . A novelist could hardly imagine circum- stances more fingularly diftreffing to fenfibility , than the fituation of the poet , if , as we may reasonably conjecture , he was ...
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... she had difpleas'd , his aid " As one difarm'd , his anger all he lost . ' It has been faid , that Milton refembled his own Adam in the comeliness of his perfon ; but he seems to have re- sembled him still more in much nobler endowments ...
... she had difpleas'd , his aid " As one difarm'd , his anger all he lost . ' It has been faid , that Milton refembled his own Adam in the comeliness of his perfon ; but he seems to have re- sembled him still more in much nobler endowments ...
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