The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes, and a Life of the Author, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1841 |
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... equal or great- er importance . I found it also difficult to select what was valua- ble and interesting from much reasoning that was sophistical and distorted ; much that was trifling and minute ; some that rested on the support of ...
... equal or great- er importance . I found it also difficult to select what was valua- ble and interesting from much reasoning that was sophistical and distorted ; much that was trifling and minute ; some that rested on the support of ...
Page xx
... equal to the very first musicians of the age.5 He saw the early promises of genius in his son , and encouraged them by a careful and liberal edu- cation . Milton was at first placed under the domestic tuition of Thomas Young , a puritan ...
... equal to the very first musicians of the age.5 He saw the early promises of genius in his son , and encouraged them by a careful and liberal edu- cation . Milton was at first placed under the domestic tuition of Thomas Young , a puritan ...
Page xxv
... equals at the hands of these courteous and learned men , the fellows of the college wherein I spent some years ; who , at my parting , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is , signified many ways , how much better it would ...
... equals at the hands of these courteous and learned men , the fellows of the college wherein I spent some years ; who , at my parting , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is , signified many ways , how much better it would ...
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... equal in brilliancy and splendour to the castles of Romance . He piled up its pinnacles from dia- mond quarries ; and hewed its towers out of rocks of gold . ' At length into the limits of the north They came , and Satan to his royal ...
... equal in brilliancy and splendour to the castles of Romance . He piled up its pinnacles from dia- mond quarries ; and hewed its towers out of rocks of gold . ' At length into the limits of the north They came , and Satan to his royal ...
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... equal to this , but the conclusion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World . ' 31 The third book opens with a comparison drawn between the unsettled state of the Britons , after the desertion of the Romans , and the condition of ...
... equal to this , but the conclusion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World . ' 31 The third book opens with a comparison drawn between the unsettled state of the Britons , after the desertion of the Romans , and the condition of ...
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