The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page 38
... less bulky by two lines , with facility and effect . If he occasionally in- dulges in those conceits , which blemished all the poetry of that age , his thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes tender and sometimes sublime ...
... less bulky by two lines , with facility and effect . If he occasionally in- dulges in those conceits , which blemished all the poetry of that age , his thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes tender and sometimes sublime ...
Page 62
... less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing , which might have been corrected by the revising judgment of its author ; but its errors , in thought and in language , are so few and trivial that ...
... less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing , which might have been corrected by the revising judgment of its author ; but its errors , in thought and in language , are so few and trivial that ...
Page 71
... less than immortality . But how shall I accomplish it ? My wings are sprouting , and I meditate to fly but while my Pegasus yet lifts him- self on very tender pinions , let me be pru- dent and humble . " * Do * For the amusement of my ...
... less than immortality . But how shall I accomplish it ? My wings are sprouting , and I meditate to fly but while my Pegasus yet lifts him- self on very tender pinions , let me be pru- dent and humble . " * Do * For the amusement of my ...
Page 82
... less it be by the celebrated delineation of the same great dra- matist by the hand of Dryden . With the name of Maurice Morgann , who has fondled my infancy in his arms ; who was the friend of my youth , who ex- panded the liberality of ...
... less it be by the celebrated delineation of the same great dra- matist by the hand of Dryden . With the name of Maurice Morgann , who has fondled my infancy in his arms ; who was the friend of my youth , who ex- panded the liberality of ...
Page 113
... less honour'd birth Could suit the soul that grasp'd Torquato's worth . Hence years to you the youth of son bring : Your age is winter , but it buds like spring . With its full pride of hair your head is fraught , And keen and forceful ...
... less honour'd birth Could suit the soul that grasp'd Torquato's worth . Hence years to you the youth of son bring : Your age is winter , but it buds like spring . With its full pride of hair your head is fraught , And keen and forceful ...
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