The Prose Works of John Milton ...Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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Page iv
... seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities unfit them to shine or struggle among the throng . Pope , indeed , says , " To grottos and to groves we run , To ...
... seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities unfit them to shine or struggle among the throng . Pope , indeed , says , " To grottos and to groves we run , To ...
Page xi
... introduce specimens of the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to ; maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
... introduce specimens of the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to ; maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
Page xvii
... seems not improbable that the close and continuous consideration of love and marriage , to which he was led while composing these treatises on divorce , where so much is said of Adam and Eve , and the happiness of Eden , may have ...
... seems not improbable that the close and continuous consideration of love and marriage , to which he was led while composing these treatises on divorce , where so much is said of Adam and Eve , and the happiness of Eden , may have ...
Page xix
... seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a king has passed the boundary dividing authority from violence , and stepped out of the domain of royalty into ...
... seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a king has passed the boundary dividing authority from violence , and stepped out of the domain of royalty into ...
Page xxvii
... seems to be our duty to labour with an earnestness proportioned to the benefits he may have conferred on us , to obtain for him , as far as our influence extends , a hearing . It signifies nothing to plead our inability . Love is ...
... seems to be our duty to labour with an earnestness proportioned to the benefits he may have conferred on us , to obtain for him , as far as our influence extends , a hearing . It signifies nothing to plead our inability . Love is ...
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