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Page ii
... doubt be assigned for this proceeding ; but whatever they may be , the result has proved highly injurious to Milton's reputation , and , still more , to our literature . One of his recent biographers , who must , therefore , make but ...
... doubt be assigned for this proceeding ; but whatever they may be , the result has proved highly injurious to Milton's reputation , and , still more , to our literature . One of his recent biographers , who must , therefore , make but ...
Page xvi
... doubt but that was chiefly meant , which by the ancient sages was thus parabled ; that Love , if he be not twin - born , yet hath a brother wondrous like him , called Anteros ; whom while he seeks all about , his chance is to meet with ...
... doubt but that was chiefly meant , which by the ancient sages was thus parabled ; that Love , if he be not twin - born , yet hath a brother wondrous like him , called Anteros ; whom while he seeks all about , his chance is to meet with ...
Page xx
... doubt thoroughly understood , and with most exquisite skill put in practice , the arts of persuasion ; but it would require something beyond the force of art , and partaking rather of the nature of miracle , to obtain from men , while ...
... doubt thoroughly understood , and with most exquisite skill put in practice , the arts of persuasion ; but it would require something beyond the force of art , and partaking rather of the nature of miracle , to obtain from men , while ...
Page xxix
... doubt , is to be regretted ; but some good will spring from it , if it teach us , as the example of an execu- tion teaches , to blame with less acrimony the illustrious dead . With respect to myself , no example is necessary to cause me ...
... doubt , is to be regretted ; but some good will spring from it , if it teach us , as the example of an execu- tion teaches , to blame with less acrimony the illustrious dead . With respect to myself , no example is necessary to cause me ...
Page xxx
... doubt painful ; and , falling on better days , he was tempted to despise the wisdom which , like his own erewhile , knew not how to provide itself with a dinner . Another sore point with Johnson was , that Milton should be said to have ...
... doubt painful ; and , falling on better days , he was tempted to despise the wisdom which , like his own erewhile , knew not how to provide itself with a dinner . Another sore point with Johnson was , that Milton should be said to have ...
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