The Prose Works of John Milton ...Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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Page iv
... fear that the great poet should ever lose , in courts , or camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever hi does it ...
... fear that the great poet should ever lose , in courts , or camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever hi does it ...
Page xix
... fears ; but throwing himself impetuously into the current of the times , maintained with unparalleled ardour and elo- quence the cause of the people . The die had already been cast England was a republic ; its late monarch had perished ...
... fears ; but throwing himself impetuously into the current of the times , maintained with unparalleled ardour and elo- quence the cause of the people . The die had already been cast England was a republic ; its late monarch had perished ...
Page xxi
... fear cometh . " However , there are occasions on which Milton really unbends , and laughs heartily with the reader . Some expressions , also , are found scattered up and down the work , at which Phocion himself would have smiled ...
... fear cometh . " However , there are occasions on which Milton really unbends , and laughs heartily with the reader . Some expressions , also , are found scattered up and down the work , at which Phocion himself would have smiled ...
Page xxvii
... fear , at least in the service of the dead , to rouse the serpent guardians of prejudice ; and with a worldly pru- dence , for which , according to their characters , men will blame or commend them , relinquish to others , bolder or ...
... fear , at least in the service of the dead , to rouse the serpent guardians of prejudice ; and with a worldly pru- dence , for which , according to their characters , men will blame or commend them , relinquish to others , bolder or ...
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... fear , lest , if in defending the people of Eng- land , I should be as copious in words , and empty of matter , as most men think Salmasius has ben in his de- fence of the king , I might seem to deserve justly to be accounted a verbose ...
... fear , lest , if in defending the people of Eng- land , I should be as copious in words , and empty of matter , as most men think Salmasius has ben in his de- fence of the king , I might seem to deserve justly to be accounted a verbose ...
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