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Page 34
... called Apologia pro Rege & Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias Miltoni ) defensionem destructivam Regis & Populi . * Of this the author was not known ; but Milton and his nephew Philips , under whose name he ...
... called Apologia pro Rege & Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias Miltoni ) defensionem destructivam Regis & Populi . * Of this the author was not known ; but Milton and his nephew Philips , under whose name he ...
Page 48
... called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty lines in a breath , and then reduce them to half the number . ' These bursts of lights , and involutions of darkness ; these transient and involuntary excursions ...
... called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty lines in a breath , and then reduce them to half the number . ' These bursts of lights , and involutions of darkness ; these transient and involuntary excursions ...
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... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and ...
... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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