The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1John Macrone, 1835 |
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... True Religion ' - ' Familiar Letters ' Academical Exercises'- Decline of health - Illness - Death - Burial - Personal appear- ance - Temper - Religious tenets - Family - Sir Christopher Milton - The poet's nephews • 179 CHAPTER XVII ...
... True Religion ' - ' Familiar Letters ' Academical Exercises'- Decline of health - Illness - Death - Burial - Personal appear- ance - Temper - Religious tenets - Family - Sir Christopher Milton - The poet's nephews • 179 CHAPTER XVII ...
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... true light . The lives already given to the public of the immortal author of Paradise Lost ' are numerous . It may seem ungracious to speak of my predecessors , if not with unqualified praise ; yet it is necessary . The foundation of ...
... true light . The lives already given to the public of the immortal author of Paradise Lost ' are numerous . It may seem ungracious to speak of my predecessors , if not with unqualified praise ; yet it is necessary . The foundation of ...
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... true here . * Johnson abounded in verbiage , —even in his latter writings . There are those , who still believe that in soundness of criticism he is almost infallible ; and that they , who defend the higher flights of 6 * See Quarterly ...
... true here . * Johnson abounded in verbiage , —even in his latter writings . There are those , who still believe that in soundness of criticism he is almost infallible ; and that they , who defend the higher flights of 6 * See Quarterly ...
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... true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton was neither rational nor moral . Milton might carry his love of democracy much too far : I , for one , assuredly think so . His defence of the people for their decapitation ...
... true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton was neither rational nor moral . Milton might carry his love of democracy much too far : I , for one , assuredly think so . His defence of the people for their decapitation ...
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... true poetry to their proper tone : but it had not much effect with the multi- tude , who resolved to nurse the tasteless dogmas which seemed to justify their own insensibility . The Wartons were men of the romantic school of poetry ...
... true poetry to their proper tone : but it had not much effect with the multi- tude , who resolved to nurse the tasteless dogmas which seemed to justify their own insensibility . The Wartons were men of the romantic school of poetry ...
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