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His anxiety has been solely to display truth ; and , not professing himself to be exempt from those prejudices , which cling to every human being , he has been studious to prevent them from disturbing the rectitude of his line , or from ...
His anxiety has been solely to display truth ; and , not professing himself to be exempt from those prejudices , which cling to every human being , he has been studious to prevent them from disturbing the rectitude of his line , or from ...
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The lines , supposed to contain the proof in question , are the following , which have been so frequently cited from the first of his elegies to his friend , C. Deodati : Jam nec arıindiferum mihi cura revisere Camum ; Nec dudum vetiti ...
The lines , supposed to contain the proof in question , are the following , which have been so frequently cited from the first of his elegies to his friend , C. Deodati : Jam nec arıindiferum mihi cura revisere Camum ; Nec dudum vetiti ...
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Terentianus Maurus accuses Virgil of the same inaccuracy in the line " Sõlås hic inflexit sensus , ” & c . affirming with the old grammarians , that hic and hoc were formerly written with two c's , hicc , hocc being contracted from ...
Terentianus Maurus accuses Virgil of the same inaccuracy in the line " Sõlås hic inflexit sensus , ” & c . affirming with the old grammarians , that hic and hoc were formerly written with two c's , hicc , hocc being contracted from ...
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But thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the “ Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted .
But thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the “ Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted .
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As we find , from some lines in the conclusion of the same elegy , that it was his intention to return to his college , we may fairly , as I think , impute the banishment , of which he speaks , to the want of pecuniary supplies for his ...
As we find , from some lines in the conclusion of the same elegy , that it was his intention to return to his college , we may fairly , as I think , impute the banishment , of which he speaks , to the want of pecuniary supplies for his ...
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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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