A Lecture on the Writings: Prose and Poetic, and Character, Public and Personal, of John Milton, Delivered at Several Metropolitan Literary InstitutionsH. Hooper, 1838 - 55 pages |
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... noble lines with which you must be familiar ; * and , even while pandering to the vitiated French taste , which then corrupted the higher circles both in politics and literature , by converting the sublime epic into a rhyming opera ...
... noble lines with which you must be familiar ; * and , even while pandering to the vitiated French taste , which then corrupted the higher circles both in politics and literature , by converting the sublime epic into a rhyming opera ...
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... noble efforts have been made at a favourable season , for the world is not so apt now as formerly to be cajoled or over- awed by high sounding names , and men require to be satis- fied as well as overwhelmed.ยง The beneficial results of ...
... noble efforts have been made at a favourable season , for the world is not so apt now as formerly to be cajoled or over- awed by high sounding names , and men require to be satis- fied as well as overwhelmed.ยง The beneficial results of ...
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... noble lines which ought to be familiar as household words in the mouth and heart of every Briton : Cyriac , this three - years ' - day , these eyes , though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot , Bereft of light , their seeing ...
... noble lines which ought to be familiar as household words in the mouth and heart of every Briton : Cyriac , this three - years ' - day , these eyes , though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot , Bereft of light , their seeing ...
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... noble present to his country , in order that those compositions which have been hitherto inacces- sible from their price ( several guineas being the cost of former complete editions ) may be within the reach of every Englishman . After ...
... noble present to his country , in order that those compositions which have been hitherto inacces- sible from their price ( several guineas being the cost of former complete editions ) may be within the reach of every Englishman . After ...
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... noble Thomas Scudamore , King Charles's ambassador , to whom I carried letters of recommendation , received me most courteously at Paris . His lordship gave me a card of introduction to the learned Hugo Grotius , at that time ambassador ...
... noble Thomas Scudamore , King Charles's ambassador , to whom I carried letters of recommendation , received me most courteously at Paris . His lordship gave me a card of introduction to the learned Hugo Grotius , at that time ambassador ...
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