The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . - Dr . J. interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in 30 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . - Dr . J. interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in 30 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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Including Translations ... interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal ...
Including Translations ... interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal ...
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... fell into fragments when that force was taken away ; and Milton saw himself and his cause in equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to ...
... fell into fragments when that force was taken away ; and Milton saw himself and his cause in equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to ...
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... fell by the daggers of royalist assassins , at the Hague and at Madrid , he might reasonably be afraid of suffering by a vigour beyond the law . But of evil tongues for Milton to complain required impudence 48 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... fell by the daggers of royalist assassins , at the Hague and at Madrid , he might reasonably be afraid of suffering by a vigour beyond the law . But of evil tongues for Milton to complain required impudence 48 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ; and , weltering by his side , One next himself in power , and next in crime , Long after known in Palestine , and ...
... fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ; and , weltering by his side , One next himself in power , and next in crime , Long after known in Palestine , and ...
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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.