The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... second year , he was torn from my affection and my hopes , experiencing from his God , in requital of a pure life , the mercy of an early death . CHARLES SYMMONS . a 23 PREFA CЕ . MORE than two years have now elapsed.
... second year , he was torn from my affection and my hopes , experiencing from his God , in requital of a pure life , the mercy of an early death . CHARLES SYMMONS . a 23 PREFA CЕ . MORE than two years have now elapsed.
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... death of his sister's child , his second may be regarded as fixed on his sublime , though unequal ode “ On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ; " and his third as reaching to his Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly ...
... death of his sister's child , his second may be regarded as fixed on his sublime , though unequal ode “ On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ; " and his third as reaching to his Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly ...
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... death of a fair Infant , " written when our author was only seventeen , we find the boy - poet moving with grace and harmony under the shackles of rhyme , and managing a stanza , like the Spencerian but less bulky by two lines , with ...
... death of a fair Infant , " written when our author was only seventeen , we find the boy - poet moving with grace and harmony under the shackles of rhyme , and managing a stanza , like the Spencerian but less bulky by two lines , with ...
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... death of Mrs. Anne Killegrew . V. Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead ; Or that thy corse corrupts in Earth's dark womb ; Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed , Hid from the world in a low - delved tomb . Could heaven for pity thee ...
... death of Mrs. Anne Killegrew . V. Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead ; Or that thy corse corrupts in Earth's dark womb ; Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed , Hid from the world in a low - delved tomb . Could heaven for pity thee ...
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... death of his father in 1594 be- came earl of Derby , and died in the following year . She after- wards married the lord chancellor Egerton , who died in 1617 ; her daughter , Frances , married the chancellor's son , John earl of ...
... death of his father in 1594 be- came earl of Derby , and died in the following year . She after- wards married the lord chancellor Egerton , who died in 1617 ; her daughter , Frances , married the chancellor's son , John earl of ...
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