The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... reason also he would be the more anxions decidedly to incline him with the biass of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the ...
... reason also he would be the more anxions decidedly to incline him with the biass of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the ...
Page 50
... have not all this while won you to this , I have certainly wearied you of it . This therefore alone may be a sufficient reason for me to keepe me as I am , least having thus tired you singly , I should deal worse with 50 LIFE OF MILTON .
... have not all this while won you to this , I have certainly wearied you of it . This therefore alone may be a sufficient reason for me to keepe me as I am , least having thus tired you singly , I should deal worse with 50 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... reasons , " which , hallowed by conscience , are entitled to our respect , the attainment of a common fellowship , to be held only for a very limited term , could not be among the objects of his life . The com- petence also of which he ...
... reasons , " which , hallowed by conscience , are entitled to our respect , the attainment of a common fellowship , to be held only for a very limited term , could not be among the objects of his life . The com- petence also of which he ...
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... reason , we might , perhaps , justly question the propriety of the length to which the poet's fancy has carried him . Darkness may aptly be repre- sented by the blackness of the raven ; and the stillness of that darkness may be pa ...
... reason , we might , perhaps , justly question the propriety of the length to which the poet's fancy has carried him . Darkness may aptly be repre- sented by the blackness of the raven ; and the stillness of that darkness may be pa ...
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... friend , Alex . Gill , dated dec . 4 , 1634 , we find that in the same year in which the poet finished Comus , he made that version of the 114th Psalm into The Lycidas was written , as there is reason to 66 LIFE OF MILTON .
... friend , Alex . Gill , dated dec . 4 , 1634 , we find that in the same year in which the poet finished Comus , he made that version of the 114th Psalm into The Lycidas was written , as there is reason to 66 LIFE OF MILTON .
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