The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
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... Poet . Though the present Life is too contracted in its plan , and , perhaps , too slender in its materials , to pretend to rank among the laboured and established biographies of Milton , yet I must observe that in the arrangement of ...
... Poet . Though the present Life is too contracted in its plan , and , perhaps , too slender in its materials , to pretend to rank among the laboured and established biographies of Milton , yet I must observe that in the arrangement of ...
Page vii
... Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opin- ions . It was written by a person who had been educated in his youth by Milton , who had subsequently lived in habits of daily intimacy with him , and to whom Milton had mentioned ...
... Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opin- ions . It was written by a person who had been educated in his youth by Milton , who had subsequently lived in habits of daily intimacy with him , and to whom Milton had mentioned ...
Page viii
... Poet's life , for the most part gathered from the communications of Pope , or from the descendants of Milton's family . Doctor Birch , who was remarkable for his industrious and indefatigable researches , added considerably to the ...
... Poet's life , for the most part gathered from the communications of Pope , or from the descendants of Milton's family . Doctor Birch , who was remarkable for his industrious and indefatigable researches , added considerably to the ...
Page ix
... 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 preservation of the church ...
... 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 preservation of the church ...
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... poet assigns to the infernal powers the invention of artillery ; but on this subject consult a note by Todd in vol . ii . 465 , on the Adamo . See Walker , on Italian Tragedy , p . 172 , App . xxxii . on passages in the Paradise Lost ...
... poet assigns to the infernal powers the invention of artillery ; but on this subject consult a note by Todd in vol . ii . 465 , on the Adamo . See Walker , on Italian Tragedy , p . 172 , App . xxxii . on passages in the Paradise Lost ...
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