The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page xiv
... force and authority which nothing could refift . Adicu . Florence , Sept. 10 , 1638 . IX . To LUKE HOLSTEIN , in the Vatican at Rome . THOUGH in my paffage through Italy , many per- fons have honoured me with fingular and memorable ...
... force and authority which nothing could refift . Adicu . Florence , Sept. 10 , 1638 . IX . To LUKE HOLSTEIN , in the Vatican at Rome . THOUGH in my paffage through Italy , many per- fons have honoured me with fingular and memorable ...
Page xvii
... force as often as I recollect that I left fo many companions fo engaging , and fo many friends fo kind , collected in one city ; which is , alas , fo far re- moved ; which imperious circumftances compelled me to quit against my ...
... force as often as I recollect that I left fo many companions fo engaging , and fo many friends fo kind , collected in one city ; which is , alas , fo far re- moved ; which imperious circumftances compelled me to quit against my ...
Page xxi
... force of perfuafion I should feel the highest fatisfaction in employing them to excite our armies and our fleets to deliver Greece , the parent of eloquence , from the defpotifm of the Ottomans . Such is the enterprize in which you seem ...
... force of perfuafion I should feel the highest fatisfaction in employing them to excite our armies and our fleets to deliver Greece , the parent of eloquence , from the defpotifm of the Ottomans . Such is the enterprize in which you seem ...
Page xxix
... force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ftrength but by ...
... force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ftrength but by ...
Page xxxi
... force of my own conceptions . It gives me pleasure that you are convinced of the tranquillity which I pos- fefs under this afflicting privation of fight as well as of the civility and kindness with which I receive those who vifit me ...
... force of my own conceptions . It gives me pleasure that you are convinced of the tranquillity which I pos- fefs under this afflicting privation of fight as well as of the civility and kindness with which I receive those who vifit me ...
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