The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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... writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was ...
... writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was ...
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... write you an epistle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- self without fending also another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly infpire , are too expansive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
... write you an epistle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- self without fending also another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly infpire , are too expansive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
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... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- fure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that you ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- fure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that you ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
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... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . If you had made me a present of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . If you had made me a present of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
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... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
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