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Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered in my bosom , in which every animating passion is nearly extinct , I might abundantly gratify the weakness by ...
Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered in my bosom , in which every animating passion is nearly extinct , I might abundantly gratify the weakness by ...
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however , or find a strong and bright resemblance of her in my own country , I feel that I am not summoned to propitiate duty with the sacrifice of prudence , and that , conscious of speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satisfaction of ...
however , or find a strong and bright resemblance of her in my own country , I feel that I am not summoned to propitiate duty with the sacrifice of prudence , and that , conscious of speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satisfaction of ...
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When in the verses written " At a solemni Musick , " we read the following lines , where , speaking of the wedded sounds of the harmonious sisters , Voice and Verse , the young poet says that they are Dead things with inbreathed sense ...
When in the verses written " At a solemni Musick , " we read the following lines , where , speaking of the wedded sounds of the harmonious sisters , Voice and Verse , the young poet says that they are Dead things with inbreathed sense ...
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I speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immediately under our review , and which , evidently composed with the most entire affection , are executed on the whole with the ...
I speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immediately under our review , and which , evidently composed with the most entire affection , are executed on the whole with the ...
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... he took with 2 conscience that could retch , he must either strain perforce or split his faith ; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking bought and begun with servitude and forswearing .
... he took with 2 conscience that could retch , he must either strain perforce or split his faith ; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking bought and begun with servitude and forswearing .
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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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