The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... taste I have been largely benefitted as a 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 ...
... taste I have been largely benefitted as a 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 ...
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... taste and sensi- bility , under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the gratifi- cation , which he must have felt from his child's increasing progress , and from the prospects which this gradually opened . How ...
... taste and sensi- bility , under circumstances of some resem- blance , can form any estimate of the gratifi- cation , which he must have felt from his child's increasing progress , and from the prospects which this gradually opened . How ...
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... verse and prose with considerable taste ; and Mr. Warton mentions a latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his latin composition , C the limits of his own house for the four- e LIFE OF MILTON . 17.
... verse and prose with considerable taste ; and Mr. Warton mentions a latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his latin composition , C the limits of his own house for the four- e LIFE OF MILTON . 17.
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... taste to The slander was repeated , with some additional circum- stancss , by Du Moulin in his " Clamor Regii sanguinis ad cœ- lum . " " Aiunt hominem Cantabrigiensi academiâ ob flagitia pulsum , dedecus et flagitium fugisse , et in ...
... taste to The slander was repeated , with some additional circum- stancss , by Du Moulin in his " Clamor Regii sanguinis ad cœ- lum . " " Aiunt hominem Cantabrigiensi academiâ ob flagitia pulsum , dedecus et flagitium fugisse , et in ...
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... taste of the age ; but even where it is most erroneous , it dis- closes also the power of the poet . The fourth stanza of the hymn is the offspring , at once , of correct judgment , and of strong imagina- tion ; and its merit is not ...
... taste of the age ; but even where it is most erroneous , it dis- closes also the power of the poet . The fourth stanza of the hymn is the offspring , at once , of correct judgment , and of strong imagina- tion ; and its merit is not ...
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