The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be con- nected , I already looked forward to its ...
... character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be con- nected , I already looked forward to its ...
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... character . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of information , respecting him , has been explored with a de- gree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the impression of his importance ...
... character . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of information , respecting him , has been explored with a de- gree of solicitous minuteness , which bears honourable testimony to the impression of his importance ...
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... is immediately to our pre- sent purpose ; for this generation has witness- ed an attempt on the character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the virulence of his own age . We have seen a 2 LIFE OF MILTON .
... is immediately to our pre- sent purpose ; for this generation has witness- ed an attempt on the character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the virulence of his own age . We have seen a 2 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... character entire . With Milton , from what- ever mine the ore may originally be derived , the coin issues from his own mint with his own image and superscription ; and passes into currency with a value peculiar to itself . To speak ...
... character entire . With Milton , from what- ever mine the ore may originally be derived , the coin issues from his own mint with his own image and superscription ; and passes into currency with a value peculiar to itself . To speak ...
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... character of Thyrsis- Whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal . He was retained as a domestic in the earl of F t Bridgewater's family , where he was the mu- sical LIFE OF MILTON . 65.
... character of Thyrsis- Whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal . He was retained as a domestic in the earl of F t Bridgewater's family , where he was the mu- sical LIFE OF MILTON . 65.
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