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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... thing to be the displeaser and molester of thou- sands ; much better would it like him , doubtless , to be the messen- ger of gladness and contentment , which is his chief intended busi- ness to all mankind , but that they resist and ...
... thing to be the displeaser and molester of thou- sands ; much better would it like him , doubtless , to be the messen- ger of gladness and contentment , which is his chief intended busi- ness to all mankind , but that they resist and ...
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... things of myself , I shall peti- tion the gentler sort , it may not be envy to me . " After stating the favourable ... thing so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die . " And he gives various suggestions for a ...
... things of myself , I shall peti- tion the gentler sort , it may not be envy to me . " After stating the favourable ... thing so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die . " And he gives various suggestions for a ...
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... thing " never practised before , made themselves the bondmen of " a luckless and helpless matrimony , " and brought upon themselves " a drooping and disconsolate household cap- " tivity , without refuge or redemption . " This doctrine ...
... thing " never practised before , made themselves the bondmen of " a luckless and helpless matrimony , " and brought upon themselves " a drooping and disconsolate household cap- " tivity , without refuge or redemption . " This doctrine ...
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... things in natural scenery , wrought up with the highest poetic genuis , but brought before our view , only to show us the far greater beauty and intenser interest of conjugal tenderness and moral feeling ! I must mention , in justice to ...
... things in natural scenery , wrought up with the highest poetic genuis , but brought before our view , only to show us the far greater beauty and intenser interest of conjugal tenderness and moral feeling ! I must mention , in justice to ...
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... things , but do contain a progeny of life in them , to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve , as in a vial , the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know ...
... things , but do contain a progeny of life in them , to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve , as in a vial , the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know ...
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