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Page 37
... Paradise Lost " has engaged too much of the attention of the world not to invite its curiosity to the cir- cumstances of his conduct and the pecu- liarities of his mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor ...
... Paradise Lost " has engaged too much of the attention of the world not to invite its curiosity to the cir- cumstances of his conduct and the pecu- liarities of his mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor ...
Page 54
... Paradise Lost . On the 12th of February 1624-5 , he was entered a pensioner at Christ's college , Cam- q The entry of Milton's admission , in Christ's College , is in the following words : " Johannes Milton , Londinensis , filius Jo ...
... Paradise Lost . On the 12th of February 1624-5 , he was entered a pensioner at Christ's college , Cam- q The entry of Milton's admission , in Christ's College , is in the following words : " Johannes Milton , Londinensis , filius Jo ...
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... Paradise Lost , We have already no- ticed , on the testimony of Aubrey which may be received as to the fact in question , that Milton was a poet when he was only ten years old ; and his translation of the 136th psalm , which we still ...
... Paradise Lost , We have already no- ticed , on the testimony of Aubrey which may be received as to the fact in question , that Milton was a poet when he was only ten years old ; and his translation of the 136th psalm , which we still ...
Page 82
... : Where the bright Seraphim in burning row , And the cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires , & c . we acknowledge some touches prelusive to the Paradise Lost ; 82 LIFE OF MILTON .
... : Where the bright Seraphim in burning row , And the cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires , & c . we acknowledge some touches prelusive to the Paradise Lost ; 82 LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 83
Charles Symmons. we acknowledge some touches prelusive to the Paradise Lost ; and the following passage of the " Vacation Exercise , " in which he per . sonifies and addresses his native language , may be regarded as intimating a faint ...
Charles Symmons. we acknowledge some touches prelusive to the Paradise Lost ; and the following passage of the " Vacation Exercise , " in which he per . sonifies and addresses his native language , may be regarded as intimating a faint ...
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