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... English are paraphrases of Psalms 114 and 136 done , according to his printed note , when he was fifteen . They were his first efforts in a kind of writing engendered by the Reformation and ... English , On the Death Early English Poems.
... English are paraphrases of Psalms 114 and 136 done , according to his printed note , when he was fifteen . They were his first efforts in a kind of writing engendered by the Reformation and ... English , On the Death Early English Poems.
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... English Jesuits there had laid a plot against him ; his informants or he himself may have exaggerated the danger , though Protestant travelers in Italy could get into ticklish situations . At any rate Milton was not de- terred . The one ...
... English Jesuits there had laid a plot against him ; his informants or he himself may have exaggerated the danger , though Protestant travelers in Italy could get into ticklish situations . At any rate Milton was not de- terred . The one ...
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... English poems , nearly all the Latin and Greek pieces of any account , the Italian sonnets , and five English sonnets . We observed that in 1637 , as Milton wrote to Diodati , he was working his way through the history of medieval ...
... English poems , nearly all the Latin and Greek pieces of any account , the Italian sonnets , and five English sonnets . We observed that in 1637 , as Milton wrote to Diodati , he was working his way through the history of medieval ...
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Introduction CONTENTS | 7 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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