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The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series ... - Page 393
by William Godwin - 1797 - 481 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the ...

John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...manner is, as he fays himfelf in the preface of his fecond book of the Reafon of Church-government, that every one muft give fome proof of his wit and reading there, and his productions were received with written encomiums which the Italian is not forward to beftow...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...manner is, as he fays himfelf in the preface to his lecond book of the Keafon of Church-government, that every one muft give fome proof of his wit and reading there, and his productions were received with written encomiums which the Italian is not forward to beftow...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to refort, perceiving that fome trifles " which I had in memory, compofed at under twenty or thereabout " (for the manner is, that every one muft give a proof of his wit and " reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for, and " other...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured torefort, perceiving thatfome trifles which I had in memory, compofedat under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that...reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other things, which I had fhifted in fcarcity of books and conveniences to patch up...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured torefort, perceiving that fome trifles which I had in memory, compofedat under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that...reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other things, which I had fhifted in fcarcity of books and conveniences to patch up...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured torefort, perceiving that fome trifles which I had in memory, compofedat under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that every one muft give tbme proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for; and...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for; and...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for ;...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...academies of Italy, whither I was favored to resort, perceiving that some trifles I had in memory, composed at under twenty, or thereabout (for the manner is, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for, and...
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