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But since ; dear sire , my gratitude can find For all your gifts no gifts of equal kind : Since my large heart my bounded fortunes wrong . - Accept , for all , the record of my song : O take the love , that strives to be express'd !
But since ; dear sire , my gratitude can find For all your gifts no gifts of equal kind : Since my large heart my bounded fortunes wrong . - Accept , for all , the record of my song : O take the love , that strives to be express'd !
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... for it hath given me an apt occasion to acknowledge publicly with all grateful mind , that more than ordinary favour and respect , which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the follows of ...
... for it hath given me an apt occasion to acknowledge publicly with all grateful mind , that more than ordinary favour and respect , which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the follows of ...
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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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For fluency and sweetness of numbers ; for command and purity of expression ; for variety and correctness of imagery , we shall look in vain for his equal among the latin poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and ...
For fluency and sweetness of numbers ; for command and purity of expression ; for variety and correctness of imagery , we shall look in vain for his equal among the latin poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and ...
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Of these poems , which are nearly equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring , and the sixth , addressed in his twenty - first year to his friend Deodati , seem to be entitled ...
Of these poems , which are nearly equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring , and the sixth , addressed in his twenty - first year to his friend Deodati , seem to be entitled ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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