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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... virtue have feldom fucceeded in the management of dominion , and in politics it has long been a prevailing creed to believe , that goverment is like gold , and must not be fashioned for ex- tensive ufe without the alloy of corruption ...
... virtue have feldom fucceeded in the management of dominion , and in politics it has long been a prevailing creed to believe , that goverment is like gold , and must not be fashioned for ex- tensive ufe without the alloy of corruption ...
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... virtues of a late extraordinary biographer , whom it has been my lot to encounter continually as a very bitter , and sometimes , I think , an infidious enemy to the great whose memory I have fervently wished to rescue from poet ...
... virtues of a late extraordinary biographer , whom it has been my lot to encounter continually as a very bitter , and sometimes , I think , an infidious enemy to the great whose memory I have fervently wished to rescue from poet ...
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... heart to that divine yet perilous talent , to guide and fanctify its exertion . Those who are best acquainted with the writings and the virtues of my ineftimabie ineftimable friend , must be most fervent in their hopes ххії DEDICATION .
... heart to that divine yet perilous talent , to guide and fanctify its exertion . Those who are best acquainted with the writings and the virtues of my ineftimabie ineftimable friend , must be most fervent in their hopes ххії DEDICATION .
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... virtue , who , devoid of prejudice and enthusiasm , both in politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits ex- actly in the balance of truth and reason . What new light then can be thrown upon a life , whofe incidents ...
... virtue , who , devoid of prejudice and enthusiasm , both in politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits ex- actly in the balance of truth and reason . What new light then can be thrown upon a life , whofe incidents ...
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... virtue , was Cafton , and her family derived from Wales . Milton , in mentioning his own origin , with a decent pride , in reply to one of his revilers , afferts , that his mother was a woman of exemplary character , and peculiarly ...
... virtue , was Cafton , and her family derived from Wales . Milton , in mentioning his own origin , with a decent pride , in reply to one of his revilers , afferts , that his mother was a woman of exemplary character , and peculiarly ...
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