The Life of John Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley ...W. Porter, 1797 - 342 pages |
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... fuppofed to have been a mere tran- fcriber ; but at the period we fpeak of , his occupa- tion united the two profitable branches of drawing contracts and of lending money . The emoluments of this profeffion enabled the father of Milton ...
... fuppofed to have been a mere tran- fcriber ; but at the period we fpeak of , his occupa- tion united the two profitable branches of drawing contracts and of lending money . The emoluments of this profeffion enabled the father of Milton ...
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... fuppofed to address as a lover in his Italian poetry . The moft eloquen of the paffions , which is faid to convert almost eves ry man who feels it into a poet , induced the imagi nation of Milton to try its powers in a foreign lan ...
... fuppofed to address as a lover in his Italian poetry . The moft eloquen of the paffions , which is faid to convert almost eves ry man who feels it into a poet , induced the imagi nation of Milton to try its powers in a foreign lan ...
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... fuppofed that his poetical merit was almost utterly unknown , there were perfons in the nation , who understood his full value . Let us return to the author in his little academy , and the fecond farcaftic infult , which his biographer ...
... fuppofed that his poetical merit was almost utterly unknown , there were perfons in the nation , who understood his full value . Let us return to the author in his little academy , and the fecond farcaftic infult , which his biographer ...
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... fuppofed , was a son of bishop Hall , and fcrupled not to write thus outrageously against one , who ( to use the milder words of our author ) " in all his writing spake not that any man's " fkin fhould be razed . " " The style of this ...
... fuppofed , was a son of bishop Hall , and fcrupled not to write thus outrageously against one , who ( to use the milder words of our author ) " in all his writing spake not that any man's " fkin fhould be razed . " " The style of this ...
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... fuppofed adverfary with a keenness and vehemence of invective , which induced , perhaps , fome readers to fufpect that the performance was written entire- ly by Milton . The traces , however , of a young hand are evident in the work ...
... fuppofed adverfary with a keenness and vehemence of invective , which induced , perhaps , fome readers to fufpect that the performance was written entire- ly by Milton . The traces , however , of a young hand are evident in the work ...
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