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Page 68
Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses ... From Paris he hasted into Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and ...
Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses ... From Paris he hasted into Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and ...
Page 93
Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French , required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said ...
Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French , required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said ...
Page 451
... and seem intended to oppose or exclude the Italian opera , an exotick and irrational entertainment , which has ... a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who never , I believe , found many readers in this ...
... and seem intended to oppose or exclude the Italian opera , an exotick and irrational entertainment , which has ... a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who never , I believe , found many readers in this ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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