The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I ...
... perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I ...
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... perhaps , but certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am , probably , to be numbered with the most fal- lible of its individuals ...
... perhaps , but certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am , probably , to be numbered with the most fal- lible of its individuals ...
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... perhaps , more gratifying to the heart of a parent would be that effusion of filial affection , with which the poem concludes . At tibi , chare pater , postquam non æqua merenti Posse referre datur , nec dona rependere factis , Sit ...
... perhaps , more gratifying to the heart of a parent would be that effusion of filial affection , with which the poem concludes . At tibi , chare pater , postquam non æqua merenti Posse referre datur , nec dona rependere factis , Sit ...
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... perhaps , than to those of its innocence and excellence . It continued , as we have the strongest rea- sons to believe , equally pure and exemplary throughout the subsequent stages of his life ; but no sooner did he tread the threshold ...
... perhaps , than to those of its innocence and excellence . It continued , as we have the strongest rea- sons to believe , equally pure and exemplary throughout the subsequent stages of his life ; but no sooner did he tread the threshold ...
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... perhaps , to quit the banquet of his intellect or his imagination , on the page of Plato or of Homer , for the barren fatigue of translating a sermon , or of throwing on his memory some cumbrous pages of scholastic divinity . He had ...
... perhaps , to quit the banquet of his intellect or his imagination , on the page of Plato or of Homer , for the barren fatigue of translating a sermon , or of throwing on his memory some cumbrous pages of scholastic divinity . He had ...
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