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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... verses , charming as they are , acquire new charms , when we confider them as defcriptive of the poet himself and the penitent deftroyer of his domeftic comfort . " Her lowly plight " Immovable , till peace obtain'd from fault ...
... verses , charming as they are , acquire new charms , when we confider them as defcriptive of the poet himself and the penitent deftroyer of his domeftic comfort . " Her lowly plight " Immovable , till peace obtain'd from fault ...
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... perpetual fource of tranquillity and " fatisfaction . " Whenever he is induced to mention himself , the purity and vigour of Milton's mind appear in full luftre , 1 luftre , whether he speaks in verse or in 110 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... perpetual fource of tranquillity and " fatisfaction . " Whenever he is induced to mention himself , the purity and vigour of Milton's mind appear in full luftre , 1 luftre , whether he speaks in verse or in 110 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... verse or in profe : the preceding paffage from his Second Defence is con- fonant to the fonnet on his blindness , addreffed to Syriac Skinner , which , though different critics have denied the author to excel in this minute fpecies of ...
... verse or in profe : the preceding paffage from his Second Defence is con- fonant to the fonnet on his blindness , addreffed to Syriac Skinner , which , though different critics have denied the author to excel in this minute fpecies of ...
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... verse to Bradshaw , whom we have feen him praising fo elo- quently in profe ; and among thofe whom he men- tions with esteem in his Latin works , there is a less known military friend , who seems still more likely to have been honoured ...
... verse to Bradshaw , whom we have feen him praising fo elo- quently in profe ; and among thofe whom he men- tions with esteem in his Latin works , there is a less known military friend , who seems still more likely to have been honoured ...
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... verses , when the hiftory of the poet fuggefts that he pro- bably wrote them while he was concealed in an obfcure corner of the city , that refounded with the triumphant roar of his intoxicated enemies , among whom drunkennefs arofe to ...
... verses , when the hiftory of the poet fuggefts that he pro- bably wrote them while he was concealed in an obfcure corner of the city , that refounded with the triumphant roar of his intoxicated enemies , among whom drunkennefs arofe to ...
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