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Page ix
Had Johnson lived in the Poet's days , he would have stood by the side of Salmasius in the field of controversy , and opposed Milton on every question connected with the interests of society , the existence of the monarchy , and the ...
Had Johnson lived in the Poet's days , he would have stood by the side of Salmasius in the field of controversy , and opposed Milton on every question connected with the interests of society , the existence of the monarchy , and the ...
Page xxvii
I am letting my wings grow and preparing to fly , but my Pegasus has not yet feathers enough to soar aloft in the fields of air . You shall likewise have some information respecting my studies . I went through the perusal of the Greek ...
I am letting my wings grow and preparing to fly , but my Pegasus has not yet feathers enough to soar aloft in the fields of air . You shall likewise have some information respecting my studies . I went through the perusal of the Greek ...
Page xliii
His friendship for Young * probably led him into the field of controversy ; for he owns that he was not disposed to this manner of writing , wherein knowing myself inferior to myself , led by the genial power of nature to another task ...
His friendship for Young * probably led him into the field of controversy ; for he owns that he was not disposed to this manner of writing , wherein knowing myself inferior to myself , led by the genial power of nature to another task ...
Page liii
In 1647 , as the relations of his wife had gradually left him , he removed into a smaller house in Holborn , which opened backward into Lincoln's Inn Fields , and continued the instruction of a few scholars , chiefly the sons of ...
In 1647 , as the relations of his wife had gradually left him , he removed into a smaller house in Holborn , which opened backward into Lincoln's Inn Fields , and continued the instruction of a few scholars , chiefly the sons of ...
Page lvi
92 Toland says , ' What is worse than all the rest , Salmasius appeared on this occasion such an absolute stranger , and bungler in his own province , as to open a large field for Milton to divert himself with his barbarous phrases and ...
92 Toland says , ' What is worse than all the rest , Salmasius appeared on this occasion such an absolute stranger , and bungler in his own province , as to open a large field for Milton to divert himself with his barbarous phrases and ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1 The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, John Mitford |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2009 |
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