The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... Poet is certainly considerable , and entitles him to an honourable station among the asserters of historic truth . The admirers of Milton are under great obligations to him . Milton , in Oxfordshire ; and possessed of property , LIFE OF ...
... Poet is certainly considerable , and entitles him to an honourable station among the asserters of historic truth . The admirers of Milton are under great obligations to him . Milton , in Oxfordshire ; and possessed of property , LIFE OF ...
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... poet , we should Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with our ...
... poet , we should Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with our ...
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... poet - child should be by you begot : My kindred blood is warm with kindred flame ; And the son treads his father's track to fame . Phoebus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -to me his lay ; - A i If I have ...
... poet - child should be by you begot : My kindred blood is warm with kindred flame ; And the son treads his father's track to fame . Phoebus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -to me his lay ; - A i If I have ...
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... poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With towery head ...
... poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With towery head ...
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... poet for the society or the country of Cambridge ? 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 ...
... poet for the society or the country of Cambridge ? 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 ...
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