The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page vi
... firft . Though , if the reafons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you well ...
... firft . Though , if the reafons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you well ...
Page xi
... firft genius have embraced ; and your fellow - citizens feem ardently to expect that you will either illuftrate or amplify , or at leaft polish and methodize the labours of your predeceffors . By fuch a work you will lay your countrymen ...
... firft genius have embraced ; and your fellow - citizens feem ardently to expect that you will either illuftrate or amplify , or at leaft polish and methodize the labours of your predeceffors . By fuch a work you will lay your countrymen ...
Page xvi
... firft lines of yours , in which the elegance of expreffion feems to con- teft the palm with the tenderness of friendship , I felt nothing but an unmingled purity of joy , particularly when I found you labouring to make friendship win ...
... firft lines of yours , in which the elegance of expreffion feems to con- teft the palm with the tenderness of friendship , I felt nothing but an unmingled purity of joy , particularly when I found you labouring to make friendship win ...
Page xvii
... no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought that by this means I fhould entice you or fome other perfons to write ; for if I wrote firft it feemed neceffary that I Vol . I. с hould } fhould write to all , as if I wrote to xvii.
... no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought that by this means I fhould entice you or fome other perfons to write ; for if I wrote firft it feemed neceffary that I Vol . I. с hould } fhould write to all , as if I wrote to xvii.
Page xx
... firft , as I endeavoured , to give you intelligence of this event , I think that it will contribute greatly to your fatisfaction , and will ferve as a fpecimen of my zeal for the promotion of your interefts . Westminster . XII . To the ...
... firft , as I endeavoured , to give you intelligence of this event , I think that it will contribute greatly to your fatisfaction , and will ferve as a fpecimen of my zeal for the promotion of your interefts . Westminster . XII . To the ...
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