The Prose Works of John Milton ...Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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... writings of Milton . Yet I may , perhaps , without blame , express in this place the re- gret which the disparaging tone adopted in speaking of their pre- decessors by too many of the biographers of this great writer , has never failed ...
... writings of Milton . Yet I may , perhaps , without blame , express in this place the re- gret which the disparaging tone adopted in speaking of their pre- decessors by too many of the biographers of this great writer , has never failed ...
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... Writings- his Areopagitica — his Eikonoklastes - his Defence of the People of England ; though , viewed separately , each of these be a work where- on an author might build rational hopes of immortality . Reasons good or bad , might no ...
... Writings- his Areopagitica — his Eikonoklastes - his Defence of the People of England ; though , viewed separately , each of these be a work where- on an author might build rational hopes of immortality . Reasons good or bad , might no ...
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... writings of those doctores umbra- tici who in every age have wooed the muse ; their representations , like nothing in heaven above , or on the earth beneath , or in the waters under the earth , being but so many wild dreams , and their ...
... writings of those doctores umbra- tici who in every age have wooed the muse ; their representations , like nothing in heaven above , or on the earth beneath , or in the waters under the earth , being but so many wild dreams , and their ...
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... writings , for reasons hereafter to be explained , are scarcely known to exist ; and how can they be persuaded that things which have lain so long in obscurity , are not only worth reviving , but distinguished for the most rare elo ...
... writings , for reasons hereafter to be explained , are scarcely known to exist ; and how can they be persuaded that things which have lain so long in obscurity , are not only worth reviving , but distinguished for the most rare elo ...
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... writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more cankered in her principles , more soiled and slubbered with aphorisming po ...
... writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more cankered in her principles , more soiled and slubbered with aphorisming po ...
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