The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descend- ed from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and Lancaster ...
... thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descend- ed from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and Lancaster ...
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... thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking , bought and begun with servi- tude and ... thoughts of obedience , whether ca- nonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ...
... thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking , bought and begun with servi- tude and ... thoughts of obedience , whether ca- nonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ...
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... thoughts close , and looks loose . ' In 1638 he left England , and went first to Paris ; where , by the favour of Lord Scudamore , he had the opportunity of visiting Grotius , then residing at the French court as ambassador from ...
... thoughts close , and looks loose . ' In 1638 he left England , and went first to Paris ; where , by the favour of Lord Scudamore , he had the opportunity of visiting Grotius , then residing at the French court as ambassador from ...
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... thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign amuse- ments while his countrymen were contending for their rights . He therefore came back to Rome , though the merchants informed him of plots laid against him by ...
... thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign amuse- ments while his countrymen were contending for their rights . He therefore came back to Rome , though the merchants informed him of plots laid against him by ...
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Including Translations ... suppose of great merit , since he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , intituled ' Epitaphium Damonis , ' written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the ...
Including Translations ... suppose of great merit , since he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , intituled ' Epitaphium Damonis , ' written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the ...
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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.