The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... manner I may requite the favour of fo acceptable a gift . I had by me at the time compofitions in a like ftyle which I thought at all fit to come in competition with the excellence of your performance . no b 3 performance . I send you ...
... manner I may requite the favour of fo acceptable a gift . I had by me at the time compofitions in a like ftyle which I thought at all fit to come in competition with the excellence of your performance . no b 3 performance . I send you ...
Page ix
... manners , and the rectitude of your principles , ferve as correfpondents in your place ; your genius , which is above the common level , writes , and ferves in a ftill greater degree to endear you to me . But now you have got poffeffion ...
... manners , and the rectitude of your principles , ferve as correfpondents in your place ; your genius , which is above the common level , writes , and ferves in a ftill greater degree to endear you to me . But now you have got poffeffion ...
Page xi
... manners of a ftate , and makes the wisdom of his ad- ministration confpicuous both at home and abroad . But I affign the fecond place to him , who endeavours by precepts and by rules to perpetuate that ftyle and idiom of fpeech and ...
... manners of a ftate , and makes the wisdom of his ad- ministration confpicuous both at home and abroad . But I affign the fecond place to him , who endeavours by precepts and by rules to perpetuate that ftyle and idiom of fpeech and ...
Page xiii
... manner as if it was for the intereft of all men to learn their language . But , for all them , we might think that you Italians wished to confine your wisdom within the pomærium of the Alps . This praise therefore , which no one has ...
... manner as if it was for the intereft of all men to learn their language . But , for all them , we might think that you Italians wished to confine your wisdom within the pomærium of the Alps . This praise therefore , which no one has ...
Page xviii
... manner fo truly friendly , and by a triple repe- tition of epistolary kindness , have laid me under an ob- ligation to write to you , and have exonerated me from the cenfure of thofe to whom I do not write . Though I must confefs that I ...
... manner fo truly friendly , and by a triple repe- tition of epistolary kindness , have laid me under an ob- ligation to write to you , and have exonerated me from the cenfure of thofe to whom I do not write . Though I must confefs that I ...
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