The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... hath given me an apt occasion to acknowledge publicly with all grateful mind , that more than ordinary fa- vour and respect , which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fellows of that ...
... hath given me an apt occasion to acknowledge publicly with all grateful mind , that more than ordinary fa- vour and respect , which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fellows of that ...
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... hath quite forgot to rave , While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave . The thirteen succeeding stanzas are dis- figured by numerous conceits ; but from the nineteenth , The Oracles are dumb , & c . to the conclusion of the ...
... hath quite forgot to rave , While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave . The thirteen succeeding stanzas are dis- figured by numerous conceits ; but from the nineteenth , The Oracles are dumb , & c . to the conclusion of the ...
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... hath time , the suttle theefe of youth , Stolne on his wing my three and twentieth yeere ! My hasting days fly on with full careere ; But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th . Perhaps my semblance might deceave the truth , That I ...
... hath time , the suttle theefe of youth , Stolne on his wing my three and twentieth yeere ! My hasting days fly on with full careere ; But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th . Perhaps my semblance might deceave the truth , That I ...
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... hath liberty to pro- pose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempting : whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ...
... hath liberty to pro- pose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempting : whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ...
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... hath pluckt from me by an abortive and foredated discovery : and the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise : but that none hath by more studious ways endea- voured ; and with more unwearied spirit that ...
... hath pluckt from me by an abortive and foredated discovery : and the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise : but that none hath by more studious ways endea- voured ; and with more unwearied spirit that ...
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