The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... merits of your poem to my judgment , you confer on me as great an honour as the Gods would if the contending mufical immortals had called me in to adjudge the palm of vic- 6 tory ; tory ; as poets babble that it formerly fell to ii.
... merits of your poem to my judgment , you confer on me as great an honour as the Gods would if the contending mufical immortals had called me in to adjudge the palm of vic- 6 tory ; tory ; as poets babble that it formerly fell to ii.
Page xiv
... honour on account of his compliance . On this occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language ... honoured me with fingular and memorable proofs of their civility and friendship , yet on fo fhort an acquaintance I know ...
... honour on account of his compliance . On this occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language ... honoured me with fingular and memorable proofs of their civility and friendship , yet on fo fhort an acquaintance I know ...
Page xvi
... honour , rank me I befeech you , for the future , wherever I may be , among those who are most attached to you and to the ftudies in which you are engaged . Florence , March 30 , 1639 . X. To CAROLO DEODATI , a Florentine Noble . I ...
... honour , rank me I befeech you , for the future , wherever I may be , among those who are most attached to you and to the ftudies in which you are engaged . Florence , March 30 , 1639 . X. To CAROLO DEODATI , a Florentine Noble . I ...
Page xx
... honours . For if Alexander the Great , when waging war in the diftant Eaft , de- clared that he encountered fo many dangers and fo many trials for the fake of having his praifes celebrated by the Athenians , ought not I to congratulate ...
... honours . For if Alexander the Great , when waging war in the diftant Eaft , de- clared that he encountered fo many dangers and fo many trials for the fake of having his praifes celebrated by the Athenians , ought not I to congratulate ...
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... honour from God , to be the first that fhould fet up a fiandard for the recovery of loft truth , and blow the firft evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up , as from a hill , the new lamp of faving light to all christendom ...
... honour from God , to be the first that fhould fet up a fiandard for the recovery of loft truth , and blow the firft evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up , as from a hill , the new lamp of faving light to all christendom ...
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