The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... mind and perfect taste I have been largely benefitted as a writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF ...
... mind and perfect taste I have been largely benefitted as a writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF ...
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... mind of such a son ! But the reward of the father was ample ; and no one , but a parent of taste and sensi- bility , under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the gratifi- cation , which he must have felt from ...
... mind of such a son ! But the reward of the father was ample ; and no one , but a parent of taste and sensi- bility , under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the gratifi- cation , which he must have felt from ...
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... mind , with which he maintained himself , like a Grecian sage , or an old Roman consul , on the profits of a small farm . Rus tuum accersitus , simul ac ver ado- leverit , libenter adveniam ad capessendas anni tuique non minus colloquii ...
... mind , with which he maintained himself , like a Grecian sage , or an old Roman consul , on the profits of a small farm . Rus tuum accersitus , simul ac ver ado- leverit , libenter adveniam ad capessendas anni tuique non minus colloquii ...
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... mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the example of his preceptor Young ; in whom religion seems to have been exalted to enthusiasm , and who submitted , as we know , to some very trying ...
... mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the example of his preceptor Young ; in whom religion seems to have been exalted to enthusiasm , and who submitted , as we know , to some very trying ...
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... mind it seems to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably indebted to it , not merely for the subject ...
... mind it seems to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably indebted to it , not merely for the subject ...
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