The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With towery head ...
... poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With towery head ...
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... poet for the society or the country of Cambridge ? As we find , from some lines in the conclusion of the same elegy , that it was his intention to return to his college , we may fairly , as I think , impute the banishment , of which he ...
... poet for the society or the country of Cambridge ? As we find , from some lines in the conclusion of the same elegy , that it was his intention to return to his college , we may fairly , as I think , impute the banishment , of which he ...
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... Lost . We have already no- ticed , on the testimony of Aubrey , which may be received as to the fact in question , that Milton was a poet when he was only erince ten years old ; and his translation of the 136th 36 LIFE OF MILTON .
... Lost . We have already no- ticed , on the testimony of Aubrey , which may be received as to the fact in question , that Milton was a poet when he was only erince ten years old ; and his translation of the 136th 36 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... poet , the first shootings of the infant oak , which in later times was to overshadow the forest , At the age , to which we have now fol- lowed him , or from the ... poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of LIFE OF MILTON . 37.
... poet , the first shootings of the infant oak , which in later times was to overshadow the forest , At the age , to which we have now fol- lowed him , or from the ... poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of LIFE OF MILTON . 37.
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Charles Symmons. poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of his lamentation were that JUST MAID , who once before Forsook the hated earth , & c . and when he says And thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss ...
Charles Symmons. poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of his lamentation were that JUST MAID , who once before Forsook the hated earth , & c . and when he says And thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss ...
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