The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... live within my breast ! And you sweet triflings of my youthful state , If strains , like you , can hope a lasting date ; Unconscious of your mortal master's doom , If ye maintain the day , nor know the tomb , From dark forgetfulness ...
... live within my breast ! And you sweet triflings of my youthful state , If strains , like you , can hope a lasting date ; Unconscious of your mortal master's doom , If ye maintain the day , nor know the tomb , From dark forgetfulness ...
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... live my own beneath a father's roof- Still , let an idle world candemn or not , Mine be a truant's name , —an exile's lot . • Our author seems in this place to be guilty of a false quan- tity , and to begin his hexameter very ...
... live my own beneath a father's roof- Still , let an idle world candemn or not , Mine be a truant's name , —an exile's lot . • Our author seems in this place to be guilty of a false quan- tity , and to begin his hexameter very ...
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... live my own beneath a father's roof , Still , let an idle world condemn or not , — Mine be a truant's name , an exile's lot . O had no weightier ills oppress'd the doom Of the sad bard in Tomi's wintry gloom ; Great Homer's self had ...
... live my own beneath a father's roof , Still , let an idle world condemn or not , — Mine be a truant's name , an exile's lot . O had no weightier ills oppress'd the doom Of the sad bard in Tomi's wintry gloom ; Great Homer's self had ...
Page 70
... - tain vital symptoms it had , was likely to live . " In a letter , which from its date was Reasons of C. Govern . B. 2d . P. W. vol . i . 118 . written about two months before his Lycidas , he lays 70 LIFE OF MILTON .
... - tain vital symptoms it had , was likely to live . " In a letter , which from its date was Reasons of C. Govern . B. 2d . P. W. vol . i . 118 . written about two months before his Lycidas , he lays 70 LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 108
... lives of Homer , which are extant , it is more proba- ble that the Ionic was written by Herodotus , than that the Attic . was the production of Plutarch . Mycale is a mountain not in Boeotia , as Mr. W. affirms , but in Ionia near the ...
... lives of Homer , which are extant , it is more proba- ble that the Ionic was written by Herodotus , than that the Attic . was the production of Plutarch . Mycale is a mountain not in Boeotia , as Mr. W. affirms , but in Ionia near the ...
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