The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... danger , and therefore kept on his way , and acted as before , neither obtruding nor shunning controversy . He had perhaps given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the Inquisition for philosophical heresy ; and at ...
... danger , and therefore kept on his way , and acted as before , neither obtruding nor shunning controversy . He had perhaps given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the Inquisition for philosophical heresy ; and at ...
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... of an insurmountable nature , for the reconciliation alone between Milton and his wife pre- vented the accomplishment of this second union . unlicensed Printing . ' The danger of such unbounded liberty 22 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... of an insurmountable nature , for the reconciliation alone between Milton and his wife pre- vented the accomplishment of this second union . unlicensed Printing . ' The danger of such unbounded liberty 22 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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Including Translations ... unlicensed Printing . ' The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have pro- duced a problem in the science of government , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve ...
Including Translations ... unlicensed Printing . ' The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have pro- duced a problem in the science of government , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve ...
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... danger ; but Milton's pride operated against his malignity ; and both he and his friends were more willing that Du Moulin should escape than that he should be convicted of mistake . In this second Defence he shows that his eloquence is ...
... danger ; but Milton's pride operated against his malignity ; and both he and his friends were more willing that Du Moulin should escape than that he should be convicted of mistake . In this second Defence he shows that his eloquence is ...
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... danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new common- wealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he ' bated no jot of heart or hope ...
... danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new common- wealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he ' bated no jot of heart or hope ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.