The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung . The hooked chariot stood , Unstain'd with hostile blood : 40 LIFE OF MILTON . poetic. When the poet asks whether the ...
... war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung . The hooked chariot stood , Unstain'd with hostile blood : 40 LIFE OF MILTON . poetic. When the poet asks whether the ...
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... poems , which have been selected only as instances of the progress of our author's English muse , he produced some other small pieces of poetry in his native language , which are all distin- guished by beauties and faults , and disco ...
... poems , which have been selected only as instances of the progress of our author's English muse , he produced some other small pieces of poetry in his native language , which are all distin- guished by beauties and faults , and disco ...
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... poem ; Yet I would rather , if I were to choose Thy service ( that of his native language ) in some graver subject ... poems , com- posed at this early stage of his life , there is much in all these pieces to be regretted and pardoned 42 ...
... poem ; Yet I would rather , if I were to choose Thy service ( that of his native language ) in some graver subject ... poems , com- posed at this early stage of his life , there is much in all these pieces to be regretted and pardoned 42 ...
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... poems , however , of the same date , no such observation is in any degree applicable . Immediately conversant with ... poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and imitator of Lucan ; and Cowley , ' whose taste and ...
... poems , however , of the same date , no such observation is in any degree applicable . Immediately conversant with ... poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and imitator of Lucan ; and Cowley , ' whose taste and ...
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... poets , whom , both for the pleasing sound of their numerous writing , which in imitation I found most easy and most ... poems , which are nearly equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring ...
... poets , whom , both for the pleasing sound of their numerous writing , which in imitation I found most easy and most ... poems , which are nearly equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring ...
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