The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... character , I undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be connected , I already looked forward to its ...
... character , I undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be connected , I already looked forward to its ...
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... 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 impression of his importance ...
... 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 impression of his importance ...
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... character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the - 1 of his o FORNIUS , LE ituated th Johnson ; ma openin As ever in at bein S ہے Tas at a virulence of his own age . We have seen 2 LIFE LIFE OF MILTton .
... character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the - 1 of his o FORNIUS , LE ituated th Johnson ; ma openin As ever in at bein S ہے Tas at a virulence of his own age . We have seen 2 LIFE LIFE OF MILTton .
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... character , or sustaining the most trifling diminution of our esteem . In his " Second Defence , " published twelve years after the " Apology for Smectymnuus , " he again asserts the purity of his college life and affirms , in ...
... character , or sustaining the most trifling diminution of our esteem . In his " Second Defence , " published twelve years after the " Apology for Smectymnuus , " he again asserts the purity of his college life and affirms , in ...
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... character . He wields their language with the most perfect mastery , and , without wishing , like Cowley , to compel it to any unclassical service , employs it as an obedient instrument . 1 Of these poems , which are nearly equal in ...
... character . He wields their language with the most perfect mastery , and , without wishing , like Cowley , to compel it to any unclassical service , employs it as an obedient instrument . 1 Of these poems , which are nearly equal in ...
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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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