The Prose Works of John Milton: A defence of the people of England. A second defence of the people of England. EikonoklastesH.G. Bohn, 1848 - English prose literature |
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... politics necessarily connected with it , would certainly demand a separate volume . I shall therefore enter at once upon the remarks suggested by an attentive examination of the cha- racter and writings of Milton . Yet I may , perhaps ...
... politics necessarily connected with it , would certainly demand a separate volume . I shall therefore enter at once upon the remarks suggested by an attentive examination of the cha- racter and writings of Milton . Yet I may , perhaps ...
Page ii
... politics . He looks upon the poet as something too airy and dream - fed to feel any interest in the affairs of mankind ; as some- thing which should , perhaps , subsist upon patronage , celebrate the praises of kings , and abandon the ...
... politics . He looks upon the poet as something too airy and dream - fed to feel any interest in the affairs of mankind ; as some- thing which should , perhaps , subsist upon patronage , celebrate the praises of kings , and abandon the ...
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... political pursuits , I may , perhaps , be permitted , by the way , to hazard another observation . The idea seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities ...
... political pursuits , I may , perhaps , be permitted , by the way , to hazard another observation . The idea seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities ...
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... political crisis - the irruption of the Dorians into Peloponnesus , and the consequent migrations of the Ionic inhabitants to Asia Minor , — evident traces are discoverable of the times of trouble and commo- tion in which its author ...
... political crisis - the irruption of the Dorians into Peloponnesus , and the consequent migrations of the Ionic inhabitants to Asia Minor , — evident traces are discoverable of the times of trouble and commo- tion in which its author ...
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... politics , a bad husband , a worse father . His style , too , is said to be scarcely English . The subjects he loved to treat are spoken of as out - of - date topics , from the consi- deration of which , however handled , no good could ...
... politics , a bad husband , a worse father . His style , too , is said to be scarcely English . The subjects he loved to treat are spoken of as out - of - date topics , from the consi- deration of which , however handled , no good could ...
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