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... wrote except for money ' . At long last he could afford to belie it , after a lifetime of poverty , for he was now secure and comfortable . It was just forty years since he had arrived in London , at the age of twenty - eight , an ...
... wrote except for money ' . At long last he could afford to belie it , after a lifetime of poverty , for he was now secure and comfortable . It was just forty years since he had arrived in London , at the age of twenty - eight , an ...
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... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
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... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
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Milton | 15 |
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