The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... equal sublimity of Eternity : Æternæque moræ stabunt immobilis ævi . The eternal pause of age for ever fix'd . The poem which he wrote about this time , 1628 , for one of the Fellows of his college , on the subject of the unimpaired ...
... equal sublimity of Eternity : Æternæque moræ stabunt immobilis ævi . The eternal pause of age for ever fix'd . The poem which he wrote about this time , 1628 , for one of the Fellows of his college , on the subject of the unimpaired ...
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... equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the Tempest , or the Midsummer's Night's Dream , a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there ...
... equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the Tempest , or the Midsummer's Night's Dream , a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there ...
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... equal space : the impression made by it on the imagina- tion is to be felt , and not explained . Although these poems obtained some early notice , the number of their admirers y 66 Perhaps , " says Mr.Warton on this line , " To walk the ...
... equal space : the impression made by it on the imagina- tion is to be felt , and not explained . Although these poems obtained some early notice , the number of their admirers y 66 Perhaps , " says Mr.Warton on this line , " To walk the ...
Page 100
... equal , though more compressed praise , by Salsilli and Sel- vaggi at Rome ; by the former in a latin te- trastic , and by the latter in a distich . At his next removal we shall see our traveller distinguished by still more lofty ...
... equal , though more compressed praise , by Salsilli and Sel- vaggi at Rome ; by the former in a latin te- trastic , and by the latter in a distich . At his next removal we shall see our traveller distinguished by still more lofty ...
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... equal name . It was not long before the English bard was supplied with an opportunity of repay- ing to one of his Roman panegyrists the debt of praise , which had been thus contracted . On the occasion of Salsilli's illness , Milton ...
... equal name . It was not long before the English bard was supplied with an opportunity of repay- ing to one of his Roman panegyrists the debt of praise , which had been thus contracted . On the occasion of Salsilli's illness , Milton ...
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