The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... thought and my feelings , that with them they must exist or must perish . The nature of these principles will be obviously and immediately apparent to my readers ; for I have made too explicit an avowal of my political creed , with ...
... thought and my feelings , that with them they must exist or must perish . The nature of these principles will be obviously and immediately apparent to my readers ; for I have made too explicit an avowal of my political creed , with ...
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... thought of the original , but they reflect it sometimes in a peculiar mode , and with images of their own . When I refuse , therefore , to accept the more accurate transcript of another pen , I am induced solely by the persuasion . that ...
... thought of the original , but they reflect it sometimes in a peculiar mode , and with images of their own . When I refuse , therefore , to accept the more accurate transcript of another pen , I am induced solely by the persuasion . that ...
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... thought , came wafted by her doves , With all her smiles and war , the Queen of loves : For this her Gnidos , Paphos , Ida scorn'd , And Cyprus , with her rosy blush adorn'd . But I , ere yet her sovereign power enthralls , Prepare to ...
... thought , came wafted by her doves , With all her smiles and war , the Queen of loves : For this her Gnidos , Paphos , Ida scorn'd , And Cyprus , with her rosy blush adorn'd . But I , ere yet her sovereign power enthralls , Prepare to ...
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... thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes tender and sometimes sublime . The personification of Winter ... thought , a line , or , scarcely , an expression , which we can be desirous of changing . - I shall cite the fifth ...
... thoughts are more frequently just , and he is sometimes tender and sometimes sublime . The personification of Winter ... thought , a line , or , scarcely , an expression , which we can be desirous of changing . - I shall cite the fifth ...
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... thought , which , at the first glance , might seem to require defence , is certainly correct ; in the first , indeed , it is beautifully I subjoin the passage from Dryden's Ode . Whether adopted to some neighbouring star , Thou roll'st ...
... thought , which , at the first glance , might seem to require defence , is certainly correct ; in the first , indeed , it is beautifully I subjoin the passage from Dryden's Ode . Whether adopted to some neighbouring star , Thou roll'st ...
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