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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... father destined me from my infancy to the ftudy of polite literature , which I embraced with fuch avidity , that from the age of twelve , I hardly ever retired from my books before midnight . This proved the first fource of injury to my ...
... father destined me from my infancy to the ftudy of polite literature , which I embraced with fuch avidity , that from the age of twelve , I hardly ever retired from my books before midnight . This proved the first fource of injury to my ...
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... father as a retreat fa- vourable to his literary pursuits , and , at the age twenty - four , he gladly fhared the rural retirement , in which his parents had recently fettled , at Hor- ton , in Buckinghamshire : here he devoted himself ...
... father as a retreat fa- vourable to his literary pursuits , and , at the age twenty - four , he gladly fhared the rural retirement , in which his parents had recently fettled , at Hor- ton , in Buckinghamshire : here he devoted himself ...
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... father , and exhibits a lively picture of his progrefs in learning , his paffion for virtue , and his hope of renown . " To give you an account of my ftudies , " he fays , " I have brought down the affairs of the Greeks , in a continued ...
... father , and exhibits a lively picture of his progrefs in learning , his paffion for virtue , and his hope of renown . " To give you an account of my ftudies , " he fays , " I have brought down the affairs of the Greeks , in a continued ...
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... father , in November , 1637. This exquifite poem , which , as Mr. Warton juftly obferves , " must " have been either folicited as a favour by thofe " whom the poet had left in his college , or was a " voluntary contribution of ...
... father , in November , 1637. This exquifite poem , which , as Mr. Warton juftly obferves , " must " have been either folicited as a favour by thofe " whom the poet had left in his college , or was a " voluntary contribution of ...
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... father . There are , indeed , fome expreflions in this perfor- mance , which may favour an opinion that it ought to bear an earlier date ; but it has fuch ftrength and manliness of fentiment , as incline me to fuppofe it written at this ...
... father . There are , indeed , fome expreflions in this perfor- mance , which may favour an opinion that it ought to bear an earlier date ; but it has fuch ftrength and manliness of fentiment , as incline me to fuppofe it written at this ...
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