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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 lxiii
In that memorable battle of Marston Moor , when our left wing was routed , the chief officers looking back in their flight beheld you keeping your ground with your infantry , and repelling the attacks of the enemy amid heaps of slain on ...
In that memorable battle of Marston Moor , when our left wing was routed , the chief officers looking back in their flight beheld you keeping your ground with your infantry , and repelling the attacks of the enemy amid heaps of slain on ...
Page lxvi
... as by the overshadowing of heavenly wings . Besides , as I am not grown torpid by indolence , since my eyes have deserted me , but am still active , still ready to advance among the foremost to the most arduous struggles for liberty ...
... as by the overshadowing of heavenly wings . Besides , as I am not grown torpid by indolence , since my eyes have deserted me , but am still active , still ready to advance among the foremost to the most arduous struggles for liberty ...
Page xci
... colours brought from fairy land , no harps or hallelujahs of adoring saints , no swellings of unearthly music , no purpureal gleams of passing wings , none of the glories of romance , and none of the terrors of the Apocalypse .
... colours brought from fairy land , no harps or hallelujahs of adoring saints , no swellings of unearthly music , no purpureal gleams of passing wings , none of the glories of romance , and none of the terrors of the Apocalypse .
Page cvi
Its scenes would not have been laid in the bowers of paradise , or by the ' thunderous throne ' of heaven , nor where the wings of the cherubim fan the mercy - seat ; but amid royal halls , in the palaces of magicians , and islands of ...
Its scenes would not have been laid in the bowers of paradise , or by the ' thunderous throne ' of heaven , nor where the wings of the cherubim fan the mercy - seat ; but amid royal halls , in the palaces of magicians , and islands of ...
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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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