Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived Principally from Documents in His Majesty's State-paper Office, Now First Published, Volume 6 |
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... Aubrey , to have been a Bradshaw ; descended from a family of that name in Lancashire . Peck relates , that he was ... Aubrey's manuscript Life of Milton , preserved in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . Memoirs of Milton , 1740 , p . 1 ...
... Aubrey , to have been a Bradshaw ; descended from a family of that name in Lancashire . Peck relates , that he was ... Aubrey's manuscript Life of Milton , preserved in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . Memoirs of Milton , 1740 , p . 1 ...
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... Aubrey calls " a puritan in Essex who cutt his haire short ; " who , having quitted n " The roses blushing sayd , " O stay thou shepherd's mayd : " And on a sodain all 66 They rose and heard hir call . " Then sang those shepherds and ...
... Aubrey calls " a puritan in Essex who cutt his haire short ; " who , having quitted n " The roses blushing sayd , " O stay thou shepherd's mayd : " And on a sodain all 66 They rose and heard hir call . " Then sang those shepherds and ...
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... Aubrey affirms " he was a poet , " as having been executed in order to operate as a powerful incentive to the future ex- ertion of the infant author . This supposition is very probable : And , as the portrait was drawn by a painter then ...
... Aubrey affirms " he was a poet , " as having been executed in order to operate as a powerful incentive to the future ex- ertion of the infant author . This supposition is very probable : And , as the portrait was drawn by a painter then ...
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... Aubrey also relates , that " when Milton went to schoole , and when he was very younge , he studied very hard , and sate up very late , commonly til twelve or one o'clock ; and his father ordered the maid to sitt up for him . " MS ...
... Aubrey also relates , that " when Milton went to schoole , and when he was very younge , he studied very hard , and sate up very late , commonly til twelve or one o'clock ; and his father ordered the maid to sitt up for him . " MS ...
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... Aubrey the antiquary , who was a student of Trinity college Oxford , four years from 1642 , that at Oxford , and , I believe , at Cambridge , the rod was frequently used by the tutors and deans and Dr. Potter , while a tutor of Trinity ...
... Aubrey the antiquary , who was a student of Trinity college Oxford , four years from 1642 , that at Oxford , and , I believe , at Cambridge , the rod was frequently used by the tutors and deans and Dr. Potter , while a tutor of Trinity ...
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