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Page vii
2 I heard some particulars , ' says Toland , from a person that had been once his amanuensis , which were confirmed to me by his daughter , now dwelling in London , and by a letter written to me at my desire by his last wife , who is ...
2 I heard some particulars , ' says Toland , from a person that had been once his amanuensis , which were confirmed to me by his daughter , now dwelling in London , and by a letter written to me at my desire by his last wife , who is ...
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The notes which Bentley7 published on Paradise Lost appear to have been selected from that copy of Tonson's Milton , once belonging to him , which I now possess ; and much as his violence and rashness of conjecture has been blamed ...
The notes which Bentley7 published on Paradise Lost appear to have been selected from that copy of Tonson's Milton , once belonging to him , which I now possess ; and much as his violence and rashness of conjecture has been blamed ...
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I found , too , that it would be difficult , except perhaps to the curiosity of a few inquisitive scholars , to direct or detain the attention on the discussion of a subject which once held all Europe in suspense ; the progress of which ...
I found , too , that it would be difficult , except perhaps to the curiosity of a few inquisitive scholars , to direct or detain the attention on the discussion of a subject which once held all Europe in suspense ; the progress of which ...
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Milton's natural genius , cultivated by the care of those excellent scholars , who had conducted his education , and enriched by his own indefatigable study , had doubtless made great advances in those branches of knowledge at once ...
Milton's natural genius , cultivated by the care of those excellent scholars , who had conducted his education , and enriched by his own indefatigable study , had doubtless made great advances in those branches of knowledge at once ...
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Library ; it was found among other papers that once belonged to Sir Henry Newton Puckering , a benefactor to the library , and was printed at London in 1637 , 4to . Warton says , ' It was with great difficulty and reluctance that Milton ...
Library ; it was found among other papers that once belonged to Sir Henry Newton Puckering , a benefactor to the library , and was printed at London in 1637 , 4to . Warton says , ' It was with great difficulty and reluctance that Milton ...
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