The Prose Works of John Milton: A defence of the people of England. A second defence of the people of England. EikonoklastesH.G. Bohn, 1848 - English prose literature |
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... English are ac- counted , he substitutes , in his pleading , the word " regicide " for " tyrannicide ; " represents the poet devoured by the most offensive vanity , which , he says , not only led him to entertain ridiculously lofty ...
... English are ac- counted , he substitutes , in his pleading , the word " regicide " for " tyrannicide ; " represents the poet devoured by the most offensive vanity , which , he says , not only led him to entertain ridiculously lofty ...
Page xxxvi
... English words , and must therefore have known that , among ordinary mortals , " poverty " and " indigence are supposed to be pretty nearly synonymous ; but by the gods they are , I suppose , employed to signify different things ; else ...
... English words , and must therefore have known that , among ordinary mortals , " poverty " and " indigence are supposed to be pretty nearly synonymous ; but by the gods they are , I suppose , employed to signify different things ; else ...
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... English writer , not even Algernon Sydney himself , pleads so warmly the cause of freedom . Living in revolutionary times , and breathing a republican atmosphere , all Milton's feelings and sympathies went with the people . The pride of ...
... English writer , not even Algernon Sydney himself , pleads so warmly the cause of freedom . Living in revolutionary times , and breathing a republican atmosphere , all Milton's feelings and sympathies went with the people . The pride of ...
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... English , the same things as he has now wrote in Latin , such as it is , I think no man would have thought it worth while to return an answer to them , but would partly despise them as common , and ex- ploded over and over already , and ...
... English , the same things as he has now wrote in Latin , such as it is , I think no man would have thought it worth while to return an answer to them , but would partly despise them as common , and ex- ploded over and over already , and ...
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... English will never be able to wash out this stain . " Nay , you , though a blot and a stain to all learned men , were never yet able to stain the renown and everlasting glory of the English nation , that with so great a resolution , as ...
... English will never be able to wash out this stain . " Nay , you , though a blot and a stain to all learned men , were never yet able to stain the renown and everlasting glory of the English nation , that with so great a resolution , as ...
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