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" Nor, though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword, as long as it comported with my habit and my years. "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 379
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 17

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 pages
...then was : My stature certainly is not tall ; but it rather approaches the middle than the diminutive. Nor, though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength ; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword as long as it...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 350 pages
...what if it were diminutive, when so many men, illustrious both in peace and war, have been the same ? And how can that be called diminutive, which is great...though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength ; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword, as long as it...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
...what if it were diminutive, when so many men, illustrious both in peace and war, have been the same? And how can that be called diminutive, which is great...though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength ; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword, as long as it...
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La pensée de Milton

Denis Saurat - 1920 - 386 pages
...whal if il were dimiiiulive, when so many men, illustrious bolh in peace and war, have been the same? And how can that be called diminutive, which is great enough for every virtuous « Je n'avais certainement jamais supposé queje dusse un jour prendre part à un concours de beauté...
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Milton, Man and Thinker

Denis Saurat - 1925 - 400 pages
...obtain. My stature certainly is not tall ; but it rather approaches the middle than the diminutive. . . . Nor, though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword, as long as it...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...achievements, mortal combat reaching its peak of intensity between those two who, in Paradise lost, 1 ' Nor, though very thin, was I ever deficient in courage or in strength; and I was wont constantly to exercise myself in the use of the broadsword, as long as it...
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