The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page iii
... moft justly be your due , fince one of your letters is full worth two of mine , or rather , on an accurate computation , worth a hundred . When your letter arrived I was ftrenuously engaged in that work concerning which I had given you ...
... moft justly be your due , fince one of your letters is full worth two of mine , or rather , on an accurate computation , worth a hundred . When your letter arrived I was ftrenuously engaged in that work concerning which I had given you ...
Page xii
... moft copious draughts , can yet fometimes retire with avidity and delight to feast on Dante , Petrarch , and many others ; nor has Athens itself been able to confine me to the tranfparent wave of its Iliffus , nor antient Rome to the ...
... moft copious draughts , can yet fometimes retire with avidity and delight to feast on Dante , Petrarch , and many others ; nor has Athens itself been able to confine me to the tranfparent wave of its Iliffus , nor antient Rome to the ...
Page xv
... moft flattering diftinction . When I went the next day to render him my acknowledgments for this his gracious condefcenfion , it was you who obtained me an interview , in which I experienced a degree of civility and kindness greater ...
... moft flattering diftinction . When I went the next day to render him my acknowledgments for this his gracious condefcenfion , it was you who obtained me an interview , in which I experienced a degree of civility and kindness greater ...
Page xvi
... moft learned Holftein , and if you think me worthy of the 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 ...
... moft learned Holftein , and if you think me worthy of the 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 ...
Page xvii
... moft bitter forrow and regret , which I could find no more easy way to mitigate than by recalling the memory of those times , when , with thofe perfons , and particu- larly with you , I tafted blifs without alloy . This you would have ...
... moft bitter forrow and regret , which I could find no more easy way to mitigate than by recalling the memory of those times , when , with thofe perfons , and particu- larly with you , I tafted blifs without alloy . This you would have ...
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