The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1970 - 490 pages |
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Page 43
... language , may be re- garded as intimating a faint and doubtful promise of that divine poem : Yet I would rather , if I were to choose , Thy service in some graver subject use ; Such as may make thee search thy coffers round , Before ...
... language , may be re- garded as intimating a faint and doubtful promise of that divine poem : Yet I would rather , if I were to choose , Thy service in some graver subject use ; Such as may make thee search thy coffers round , Before ...
Page 162
... language , though bearing a greater appearance of artifice and labor , is still evidently that of a man , more conversant with the authors of Greece and Rome than with those of his own country , and seems to be formed without sufficient ...
... language , though bearing a greater appearance of artifice and labor , is still evidently that of a man , more conversant with the authors of Greece and Rome than with those of his own country , and seems to be formed without sufficient ...
Page 438
... languages . The languages are not specified ; and , unless we separate the two dialects of the Hebrew and the two also of ... language into the mean of the most ample know- ledge . If his Greek learning must be allowed to have been less ...
... languages . The languages are not specified ; and , unless we separate the two dialects of the Hebrew and the two also of ... language into the mean of the most ample know- ledge . If his Greek learning must be allowed to have been less ...
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