The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... interests which I had bound myself by promise to promote . On the completion , however , of my work , I discovered ... interest in the scene around me , of which I must never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves ...
... interests which I had bound myself by promise to promote . On the completion , however , of my work , I discovered ... interest in the scene around me , of which I must never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves ...
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... interest is directly af- fected , passion will necessarily be excited ; and the weapons of passion are seldom deli- cately fashioned , or scrupulously employed . When the good or the great , therefore , are exposed to falsehood by ...
... interest is directly af- fected , passion will necessarily be excited ; and the weapons of passion are seldom deli- cately fashioned , or scrupulously employed . When the good or the great , therefore , are exposed to falsehood by ...
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... interest of his bro- ther . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and quiet temper , in whose estima- tion , justice and virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but ...
... interest of his bro- ther . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and quiet temper , in whose estima- tion , justice and virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but ...
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... interest . The important concessions , which he was compelled to make to religious principle , would necessarily attach it the more closely to his heart ; and he would naturally be soli- citous to stamp upon the tender bosom of his son ...
... interest . The important concessions , which he was compelled to make to religious principle , would necessarily attach it the more closely to his heart ; and he would naturally be soli- citous to stamp upon the tender bosom of his son ...
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... interest . With reference to our theatre , ( though even on this Comus has been more than tolerated , ) these censures may be admitted as just . But Milton when he wrote his Mask had no view to the modern stage ; and writing for one ...
... interest . With reference to our theatre , ( though even on this Comus has been more than tolerated , ) these censures may be admitted as just . But Milton when he wrote his Mask had no view to the modern stage ; and writing for one ...
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