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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... verses of his son , addressed to him with no less elegance than gratitude , are an unequivocal proof . Perhaps it may again be confounding him with the author of the Astrologaster , in noticing the person who signs himself John Melton ...
... verses of his son , addressed to him with no less elegance than gratitude , are an unequivocal proof . Perhaps it may again be confounding him with the author of the Astrologaster , in noticing the person who signs himself John Melton ...
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... verses to his father prove exactly the reverse . " If Milton imbibed from this instructor , as Mr. Warton sup- poses , the principles of puritanism , it may be curious to re- mark that he never adopted from him the outward symbol of the ...
... verses to his father prove exactly the reverse . " If Milton imbibed from this instructor , as Mr. Warton sup- poses , the principles of puritanism , it may be curious to re- mark that he never adopted from him the outward symbol of the ...
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... verses also , At a Vacation Exercise in the College , written at the age of nineteen , have been repeatedly and justly noticed as containing indications of the future bard , " whose genius was equal to a subject that carried him beyond ...
... verses also , At a Vacation Exercise in the College , written at the age of nineteen , have been repeatedly and justly noticed as containing indications of the future bard , " whose genius was equal to a subject that carried him beyond ...
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... verses , both Latin and English , upon occasional subjects . He neglected indeed no part of literature , although his chief object seems to have been the cultivation of his poetical abilities . " This good hap I had from a careful ...
... verses , both Latin and English , upon occasional subjects . He neglected indeed no part of literature , although his chief object seems to have been the cultivation of his poetical abilities . " This good hap I had from a careful ...
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... verses with classick ele- gance . " Milton's Latin exercises , which he recited publickly , are also marked with characteristick ani- mation . From some remarkable passages in these , as Mr. Hayley observes , it appears " that he was ...
... verses with classick ele- gance . " Milton's Latin exercises , which he recited publickly , are also marked with characteristick ani- mation . From some remarkable passages in these , as Mr. Hayley observes , it appears " that he was ...
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