The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page ii
... occafion , you have broken your own . promises , I here commend the want of conftancy which you mention ; I commend the want of virtue , if any want of virtue there be . But , in referring the merits of your poem to my judgment , you ...
... occafion , you have broken your own . promises , I here commend the want of conftancy which you mention ; I commend the want of virtue , if any want of virtue there be . But , in referring the merits of your poem to my judgment , you ...
Page iii
... occafion ; fince he himself had long neglected fuch frivolous pursuits , and was then intent on more serious ftudies . Of these verfes I fent you a printed copy , fince I knew both your dif- criminating taste in poetry , and your candid ...
... occafion ; fince he himself had long neglected fuch frivolous pursuits , and was then intent on more serious ftudies . Of these verfes I fent you a printed copy , fince I knew both your dif- criminating taste in poetry , and your candid ...
Page vii
... occafion your filence ? Is it ill - health ? Are there in those parts any literati with whom you may play and prattle as we used to do ? When do you re- turn ? How long do you mean to stay among the Hy- perboreans ? I wish you would ...
... occafion your filence ? Is it ill - health ? Are there in those parts any literati with whom you may play and prattle as we used to do ? When do you re- turn ? How long do you mean to stay among the Hy- perboreans ? I wish you would ...
Page xiv
... occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language , that I might in Latin confefs my imperfect acquaintance with that lan- guage which I wish you by your precepts to embellish and adorn . And I hoped that if I invoked the ...
... occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language , that I might in Latin confefs my imperfect acquaintance with that lan- guage which I wish you by your precepts to embellish and adorn . And I hoped that if I invoked the ...
Page xvii
... occafion . I had it carefully fent , that whatever poetical merit it might poffefs , the few verfes which are included in the manner of an emblem , might afford no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought that by this means I ...
... occafion . I had it carefully fent , that whatever poetical merit it might poffefs , the few verfes which are included in the manner of an emblem , might afford no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought that by this means I ...
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