Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 62
... Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours ...
... Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours ...
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... Milton , the curiosity of mankind has not forborne to inquire the reason . Burnet thinks he was forgotten ; but this ... Milton . When the turn of success brought Milton into the like danger , Davenant repaid the benefit by ...
... Milton , the curiosity of mankind has not forborne to inquire the reason . Burnet thinks he was forgotten ; but this ... Milton . When the turn of success brought Milton into the like danger , Davenant repaid the benefit by ...
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... Milton . What he has told us , and we cannot now know more , is , that he composed much of his poem in the night and morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his ...
... Milton . What he has told us , and we cannot now know more , is , that he composed much of his poem in the night and morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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