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Page 82
In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth ...
In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth ...
Page 85
Nor would Milton probably have begun it , after he had lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they ...
Nor would Milton probably have begun it , after he had lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they ...
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When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
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