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... blind- ness became complete in the winter of 1651-1652 , when Milton was only forty - three and the great poem was still unwritten . Milton was continued in his secretarial post , though his work had to be lessened . One minor task ...
... blind- ness became complete in the winter of 1651-1652 , when Milton was only forty - three and the great poem was still unwritten . Milton was continued in his secretarial post , though his work had to be lessened . One minor task ...
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... blind , harmless , and only a writer . Some of the meager and mys- tifying data suggest an understanding between friends and officials that the public calling in and burning of his books would serve to gloss over his being included in ...
... blind , harmless , and only a writer . Some of the meager and mys- tifying data suggest an understanding between friends and officials that the public calling in and burning of his books would serve to gloss over his being included in ...
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... blind and quiet " ) . The funeral , said Toland , was attended by " All his learned and great friends in London , not without a friendly concourse of the vulgar . " In a nuncupative will , recorded a few months before his death by his ...
... blind and quiet " ) . The funeral , said Toland , was attended by " All his learned and great friends in London , not without a friendly concourse of the vulgar . " In a nuncupative will , recorded a few months before his death by his ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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