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ence, of the delight afforded by minute attention to the poetry of Milton :

"While I sit with thee, I seem in Heaven; "And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear "Than fruits of palm-tree, pleasantest to thirst "And hunger both, from labour, at the hour "Of sweet repast; they satiate, and soon fill,

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Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace divine
Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety."
Par. Lost, B. viii. 210.

SETTRINGTON,
May 1, 1826.

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SOME ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

MILTON.

SECTION I.

From the Birth of Milton to the time of his Marriage.

a

JOHN MILTON, son of John and Sarah Milton, was born on the 9th of December 1608, at the house of his father, who was then an eminent scrivener in London, and lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle (which was the armorial ensign of the family) in Bread-street. The ancestry of the poet was highly respectable. His father was educated as a gentleman, and became a member of Christ-Church, Oxford; in which society, as it may be presumed, he imbibed his attachment to the doctrines of the Reformation, and abjured the errours of Popery; in consequence of which, his father, who was a bigotted papist, dis

a "The xxth daye of December 1608 was baptized John, the sonne of John Mylton, scrivenor." Extract from the Register of Allhallows, Bread-street.

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