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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Page iii
... whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to owe anything to insolent wealth ; or , if distress and lack of virtue sometimes lead such a man to ...
... whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to owe anything to insolent wealth ; or , if distress and lack of virtue sometimes lead such a man to ...
Page xvi
... whole life of a man , is less pain to conjecture than to have experience . " In the Apology for his Early Life and Writings , Milton glances at the ideas of love he had gathered out of Plato and Xenophon ; and in my note on the place ...
... whole life of a man , is less pain to conjecture than to have experience . " In the Apology for his Early Life and Writings , Milton glances at the ideas of love he had gathered out of Plato and Xenophon ; and in my note on the place ...
Page xix
... whole scope of his reasoning , now start back with horror at the bare supposition that they agree with him . He has been called a regicide , and the advocate of regicides . He was certainly a republican ; but if he was also a regicide ...
... whole scope of his reasoning , now start back with horror at the bare supposition that they agree with him . He has been called a regicide , and the advocate of regicides . He was certainly a republican ; but if he was also a regicide ...
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... whole mountains of contumely and falsehood , and thus almost wholly concealed their existence from the public , a taste for a very different order of books was formed throughout the land ; for books filled , like Rochester's , Sedley's ...
... whole mountains of contumely and falsehood , and thus almost wholly concealed their existence from the public , a taste for a very different order of books was formed throughout the land ; for books filled , like Rochester's , Sedley's ...
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... whole of the prose works , first in folio , and , a second time , in quarto , with a laborious biography of the author prefixed . Gradually , from that period to the present , these trophies of the commonwealth have attracted , among ...
... whole of the prose works , first in folio , and , a second time , in quarto , with a laborious biography of the author prefixed . Gradually , from that period to the present , these trophies of the commonwealth have attracted , among ...
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