The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... fame remove lighting on the Trojan tales in affectation to make the Britain of one original with the Roman , pitched there ; ) yet thofe old and inborn names of fuc- ceffive kings , never any to have been real perfons , or done in their ...
... fame remove lighting on the Trojan tales in affectation to make the Britain of one original with the Roman , pitched there ; ) yet thofe old and inborn names of fuc- ceffive kings , never any to have been real perfons , or done in their ...
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... fame Leffabeus reports , fought a fecond battle in Henault , with Brunchild , at the mouth of Scaldis , and encamped on the river Hania . Of which our Spencer alfo thus fings : Let Scaldis tell , and let tell Hania , And let the marsh ...
... fame Leffabeus reports , fought a fecond battle in Henault , with Brunchild , at the mouth of Scaldis , and encamped on the river Hania . Of which our Spencer alfo thus fings : Let Scaldis tell , and let tell Hania , And let the marsh ...
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... fame ages . It is true , that in obfcureft times , by fhallow and unfkilful writers , the indiftinct noife of many battles and devastations of many kingdoms , overrun and loft , hath come to our ears . For what wonder , if in all ages ...
... fame ages . It is true , that in obfcureft times , by fhallow and unfkilful writers , the indiftinct noife of many battles and devastations of many kingdoms , overrun and loft , hath come to our ears . For what wonder , if in all ages ...
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... fame destiny , with the decrease and fall of virtue , corrupts alfo and fades ; at least refigns her office of relating to illiterate and frivolous hiftorians , fuch as the perfons themfelves both deferve , and are best pleased with ...
... fame destiny , with the decrease and fall of virtue , corrupts alfo and fades ; at least refigns her office of relating to illiterate and frivolous hiftorians , fuch as the perfons themfelves both deferve , and are best pleased with ...
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... fame day being fent from the Britains to defire peace , Cæfar as his affairs at prefent ftood , for fo great a breach of faith , only imposes on them double the former hof- tages to be sent after him into Gallia : and becaufe Sep ...
... fame day being fent from the Britains to defire peace , Cæfar as his affairs at prefent ftood , for fo great a breach of faith , only imposes on them double the former hof- tages to be sent after him into Gallia : and becaufe Sep ...
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