The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... less . ' This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in- continence , gives an ...
... less . ' This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in- continence , gives an ...
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... less provocation than this might have raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to re- pudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclina- tion , published ( in 1644 ) The ...
... less provocation than this might have raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to re- pudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclina- tion , published ( in 1644 ) The ...
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... less sincere than his opponents . But as faction seldom leaves a man honest , however it might find him , Mil- ton is suspected of having interpolated the book 11 called Icon Basilike , which the Council of State , to whom he was now ...
... less sincere than his opponents . But as faction seldom leaves a man honest , however it might find him , Mil- ton is suspected of having interpolated the book 11 called Icon Basilike , which the Council of State , to whom he was now ...
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... less than regal . He prepared a reply , which , left as it was imper- fect , was published by his son in the year of the Restoration . In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of ...
... less than regal . He prepared a reply , which , left as it was imper- fect , was published by his son in the year of the Restoration . In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of ...
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... less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , ' We were left , ' says Milton , ' to ourselves : the whole national 14 It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's ...
... less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , ' We were left , ' says Milton , ' to ourselves : the whole national 14 It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's ...
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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.