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With the diffidence , proper to my conscious mediocrity of talents , but with the alacrity , inspired by the wish of illustrating a great and an injured character , I undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of ...
With the diffidence , proper to my conscious mediocrity of talents , but with the alacrity , inspired by the wish of illustrating a great and an injured character , I undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of ...
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... and the peculiarities of his character . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of information , respecting him , has been explored with a degree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the ...
... and the peculiarities of his character . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of information , respecting him , has been explored with a degree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the ...
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1 This remark is immediately to our present purpose ; for this generation has witnessed an attempt on the character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the - 1 of his o FORNIUS ...
1 This remark is immediately to our present purpose ; for this generation has witnessed an attempt on the character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the - 1 of his o FORNIUS ...
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e 1 n 1 P e re e I ceive therefore that he might be excluded from the favour of his superiors in the college , and even be exposed to their censures , without incurring the slightest loss of character , or sustaining the most trifling ...
e 1 n 1 P e re e I ceive therefore that he might be excluded from the favour of his superiors in the college , and even be exposed to their censures , without incurring the slightest loss of character , or sustaining the most trifling ...
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He will.not , however , suffer his respect for the Roman models , as Mr. Warton has justly remarked , to oppress his powers , or to deprive him of his own distinct and original character . He wields their language with the most perfect ...
He will.not , however , suffer his respect for the Roman models , as Mr. Warton has justly remarked , to oppress his powers , or to deprive him of his own distinct and original character . He wields their language with the most perfect ...
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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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