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If any passages , then , in the present life of Milton , should be noticed by the reader for peculiar deficiency in composition or in spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a ...
If any passages , then , in the present life of Milton , should be noticed by the reader for peculiar deficiency in composition or in spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a ...
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civil war , he followed the royal standard ; and effected his composition with the victors only by the prevailing interest of his brother . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and ...
civil war , he followed the royal standard ; and effected his composition with the victors only by the prevailing interest of his brother . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and ...
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... prose with considerable tagte ; and Mr. Warton mentions a latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his latin composition , lo ---- S C the limits of his own house for the foun - LIFE OF MILTON .
... prose with considerable tagte ; and Mr. Warton mentions a latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his latin composition , lo ---- S C the limits of his own house for the foun - LIFE OF MILTON .
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... his second may be regarded as fixed on his sublime , though unequal ode “ On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ; " and his third as reaching to his Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly equal intervals ...
... his second may be regarded as fixed on his sublime , though unequal ode “ On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ; " and his third as reaching to his Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly equal intervals ...
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Immediately conversant with the great masters of composition , he adopts their taste with their language ; and , with the privilege , as with the ease of a native , assumes his station in their ranks . For fluency and sweetness of ...
Immediately conversant with the great masters of composition , he adopts their taste with their language ; and , with the privilege , as with the ease of a native , assumes his station in their ranks . For fluency and sweetness of ...
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| Title | The Life of John Milton |
| Author | Charles Symmons |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Nichols and Son, 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2011 |
| Length | 566 pages |
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