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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations - Page 31
by Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 239 pages
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The Principles of English Grammar

Peter Bullions - 1851 - 264 pages
...set by himself. The duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 24. And on the morrow, because he would have known...
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Paradiso perduto di Milton

John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...please when pleasure is required; bat it is his peculiar power to astonish. « He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature has bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others . the power of displaying the vast, iltuminating...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others,— the powers of displaying the vast, illuminating...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Johnson follows in the same steps, and begins almost in the same words: — "He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius ; and to know what it was that catare had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others, — tie power of displaying the vast,...
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Principles of English Grammar: A New Ed., Rev., Re-arranged and Improved

Peter Bullions - 1859 - 250 pages
...set by himself. The duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 24. And on the morrow, because he would have known...
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The principles of English grammar

William Lennie - 1863 - 188 pages
...set by himself. The Duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. And on the morrow, because he would have known...
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A Grammar of the English Language

John Seely Hart - 1864 - 220 pages
...Testament. 214. The Duke had not behaved with that loyalty as was expected. 215. Milton seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. 216. He only promised me a loan of the book for...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating...
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Recent Exemplifications of False Philology

Fitzedward Hall - 1872 - 152 pages
...whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed." Rambler, No. 186. " He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others." Life of Milton. 2 " Nurse went up-stairs with...
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Practical rules of English syntax

English syntax - 1873 - 104 pages
...genius of the language was much altered, and the people had become very different. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others. If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them...
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