The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the embellishments of life , formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge ...
... means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the embellishments of life , formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge ...
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... mean by mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell litera- ture to all comers at an open shop ; he was a cham- ber - milliner , and measured his ...
... mean by mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell litera- ture to all comers at an open shop ; he was a cham- ber - milliner , and measured his ...
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... means of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great 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 ...
... means of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great 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 ...
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... Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . ' 6 Oliver was now dead ; Richard was constrained to resign : the system of extemporary government , which had been held together only by force , natu- rally fell into fragments when that ...
... Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . ' 6 Oliver was now dead ; Richard was constrained to resign : the system of extemporary government , which had been held together only by force , natu- rally fell into fragments when that ...
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... means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and atten- dant ; and therefore , by the recommendation of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth Minshul , of a gentleman's family in Cheshire , probably without a fortune . All his wives were virgins ...
... means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and atten- dant ; and therefore , by the recommendation of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth Minshul , of a gentleman's family in Cheshire , probably without a fortune . All his wives were virgins ...
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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.