Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksA. Donalson, and fold at his shop, 1772 - 323 pages |
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Page iii
... several years , till at last the estate was fequestered , one of the family having taken the unfortunate fide in the civil wars between the houfes of York and Lancafler . John Milton , the poet's grandfather , was an under - ranger or ...
... several years , till at last the estate was fequestered , one of the family having taken the unfortunate fide in the civil wars between the houfes of York and Lancafler . John Milton , the poet's grandfather , was an under - ranger or ...
Page iv
... several languages , when he was fent to the university of Cam bridge , and admitted at Chrift's College Feb. & 2.1 1624-5 . He continued above seven years at the uni- verfity , and took two degrees , that of Bachelor of Arts in 1628 ...
... several languages , when he was fent to the university of Cam bridge , and admitted at Chrift's College Feb. & 2.1 1624-5 . He continued above seven years at the uni- verfity , and took two degrees , that of Bachelor of Arts in 1628 ...
Page x
... the city , as well as with the conversation of several learned and ingenious men , particularly of Lucas Holftenius , keeper of the Vatican library , who received received him with the greatest humanity , and fhowed him The LIFE of MILTON .
... the city , as well as with the conversation of several learned and ingenious men , particularly of Lucas Holftenius , keeper of the Vatican library , who received received him with the greatest humanity , and fhowed him The LIFE of MILTON .
Page xxix
... several teftimo- nies of his orthodoxy and morals , figned by the con- fiftories , academies , fynods , and magiftrates of the places where he had lived , and difowned his being the author of the book imputed to him , and appealed to ...
... several teftimo- nies of his orthodoxy and morals , figned by the con- fiftories , academies , fynods , and magiftrates of the places where he had lived , and difowned his being the author of the book imputed to him , and appealed to ...
Page xxxvii
... several years before the Poem was be- gun : and many other paffages might be produced , which plainly appear to have been originally intend- ed for the fcene , and are not fo properly of the epic , as of the tragic ftrain . After he was ...
... several years before the Poem was be- gun : and many other paffages might be produced , which plainly appear to have been originally intend- ed for the fcene , and are not fo properly of the epic , as of the tragic ftrain . After he was ...
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