The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves only in obedience to duty , was then quickened by the influences of fame . Eighteen months ago , like the man who visited the Rosicrusian tomb , I was surrounded with ...
... never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves only in obedience to duty , was then quickened by the influences of fame . Eighteen months ago , like the man who visited the Rosicrusian tomb , I was surrounded with ...
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... never , though he be a serpent , suck from any thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish ...
... never , though he be a serpent , suck from any thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish ...
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... never , as I am confident , be placed in com- petition with our author by any adequate and unprejudiced judge . I speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immedi- ately under ...
... never , as I am confident , be placed in com- petition with our author by any adequate and unprejudiced judge . I speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immedi- ately under ...
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... never obtain any further intelligence . A critical eye may sometimes detect in these compositions an expression , which an Augustan writer would not , perhaps , acknow- ledge as authentic ; and a reader of taste may sometimes wish for ...
... never obtain any further intelligence . A critical eye may sometimes detect in these compositions an expression , which an Augustan writer would not , perhaps , acknow- ledge as authentic ; and a reader of taste may sometimes wish for ...
Page 49
... never shall obtain it . Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good ...
... never shall obtain it . Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good ...
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