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... WHITTAKER , R. TRIPHOOK , J. EBERS , TAYLOR AND HESSEY , R. JENNINGS , G. COWIE AND CO . N. HAILES , J. PORTER , B. E. LLOYD AND SON , C. SMITH , AND C. WEITTINGHAM . 1822 . PUBLIC LIBRARY TIBKVBA THE POEMS OF John Milton . VOL . I.
... WHITTAKER , R. TRIPHOOK , J. EBERS , TAYLOR AND HESSEY , R. JENNINGS , G. COWIE AND CO . N. HAILES , J. PORTER , B. E. LLOYD AND SON , C. SMITH , AND C. WEITTINGHAM . 1822 . PUBLIC LIBRARY TIBKVBA THE POEMS OF John Milton . VOL . I.
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... son because he had forsaken the religion of his ancestors . His father , John , who was the son disinherited , had recourse for his support to the profession of a scrivener . He was a man eminent for his skill in music , many of his ...
... son because he had forsaken the religion of his ancestors . His father , John , who was the son disinherited , had recourse for his support to the profession of a scrivener . He was a man eminent for his skill in music , many of his ...
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... sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he was a while per- secuted , but having , by his brother's interest , ob- tained permission to live ...
... sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he was a while per- secuted , but having , by his brother's interest , ob- tained permission to live ...
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... sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas ...
... sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas ...
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... sons . Finding his rooms too little , he took a house and garden in Aldersgate - Street 6 , which was not then so much out of the world as it is now ; and chose his dwelling at the upper end of a passage , that he might avoid the noise ...
... sons . Finding his rooms too little , he took a house and garden in Aldersgate - Street 6 , which was not then so much out of the world as it is now ; and chose his dwelling at the upper end of a passage , that he might avoid the noise ...
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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.