The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page vii
... take up your quarters where we may at least be able occafionally to vifit one another ; for I hope that you would not be a different neighbour to us in the country than you are in b 4 town . town . But this is as it pleases God . vii.
... take up your quarters where we may at least be able occafionally to vifit one another ; for I hope that you would not be a different neighbour to us in the country than you are in b 4 town . town . But this is as it pleases God . vii.
Page viii
... able to bear , or even more than this . Truly , you fhould be appointed butler to the house of Health , whofe ftores you fo lavishly beflow ; or at leaft health fhould become your parafite , fince you fo lord it over her , and command ...
... able to bear , or even more than this . Truly , you fhould be appointed butler to the house of Health , whofe ftores you fo lavishly beflow ; or at leaft health fhould become your parafite , fince you fo lord it over her , and command ...
Page xii
... able to confine me to the tranfparent wave of its Iliffus , nor antient Rome to the banks of its Tiber , fo as to prevent my vifiting with delight the ftream of the Arne , and the hills of Fæfolæ . A ftranger from the shores of the ...
... able to confine me to the tranfparent wave of its Iliffus , nor antient Rome to the banks of its Tiber , fo as to prevent my vifiting with delight the ftream of the Arne , and the hills of Fæfolæ . A ftranger from the shores of the ...
Page xiv
... able Latian mother , hoary with years , and crowned with the respect of ages , to plead the cause of her daughter , I fhould give to my requeft a force and authority which nothing could refift . Adieu . Florence , Sept. 10 , 1638 . 1X ...
... able Latian mother , hoary with years , and crowned with the respect of ages , to plead the cause of her daughter , I fhould give to my requeft a force and authority which nothing could refift . Adieu . Florence , Sept. 10 , 1638 . 1X ...
Page xv
... able to do it . For in that library nothing can be transcribed , nor even a pen put to paper without permiffion being previously obtained ; but they say that there is at Rome one John Baptifta Donio , who is daily expected at Florence ...
... able to do it . For in that library nothing can be transcribed , nor even a pen put to paper without permiffion being previously obtained ; but they say that there is at Rome one John Baptifta Donio , who is daily expected at Florence ...
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Page 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Page 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.