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" When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... "
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors ... - Page 1297
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1882
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author ..., Volume 6

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 524 pages
...doing, becaufe I had fpoken with fo little referve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pafs over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpofe ; for I thought it bafe to be travelling for amufement abroad, while my fellow citizens were...
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Poetical Works: Biography of Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. " When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...fellowcitizens were fighting for liberty at home. " While I was on my way back to Rome, some merchants informed me that the English Jesuits had formed...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while my fellow citizens were fighting for liberty at home. While I was on my way back to Rome, some merchants...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...personal beauty he has made immortal. Suddenly a sound from England arrested his further travel. " I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow citizens were fighting for liberty at home." He returned, and from that hour devoted his services...
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at home. While I was on my way back to Rome, some merchants informed me that the English Jesuits had formed...
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Payne's universum, or pictorial world: engravings of ..., Issue 107, Volume 3

Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. " When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at home. " While I was on my way back to Rome, some merchants informed me that the English Jesuits had formed...
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The Christian Reformer, Or, Unitarian Magazine and Review, Volume 2

1846 - 800 pages
...prominent and powerful a champion. " I was preparing," says he, " to pass over into Sicily and Greece, when the melancholy intelligence which I received of the...fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at home."]: On his return to England, Milton found his countrymen hostilely arrayed against each other, and amongst...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 2

Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pages
...prominent and powerful a champion. " I was preparing," says he, " to pass over into Sicily and Greece, when the melancholy intelligence which I received of the...while my fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at home."J On his return to England, Milton found his countrymen hostilely arrayed against each other,...
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The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by ..., Volume 1

John [prose] Milton - 1848 - 590 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at home. While I was on my way back to Rome, some merchants informed me that the English Jesuits had formed...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...his reason for not doing so he shall state in his own noble words : " When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad when my fellow-citizens were lighting for liberty at home." This sentence gives us a glimpse of the...
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