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Page 27
... afterwards at Ox ford in 1634 , the very year in which Milton's drad to Milton evidently was indebted to the Old Wives Tale " of George Peele for the plan of “ Comus . ” R. T " Comus " was written . - H . bas ST SCIRO | ism in a private ...
... afterwards at Ox ford in 1634 , the very year in which Milton's drad to Milton evidently was indebted to the Old Wives Tale " of George Peele for the plan of “ Comus . ” R. T " Comus " was written . - H . bas ST SCIRO | ism in a private ...
Page 30
... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . " " He published about the same time his Areopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liber- ty of unlicensed ...
... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . " " He published about the same time his Areopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liber- ty of unlicensed ...
Page 31
... afterwards cen- sured , than it would be to sleep with doors un- bolted because by our laws we can hang a thief . But , whatever were his engagements , civil or domestic , poetry was never long out of his thoughts . Inuch considered the ...
... afterwards cen- sured , than it would be to sleep with doors un- bolted because by our laws we can hang a thief . But , whatever were his engagements , civil or domestic , poetry was never long out of his thoughts . Inuch considered the ...
Page 34
... afterwards is not known . * To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be consulted by other eyes , is not easy , nor possible , but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtain- ed ; and it was ...
... afterwards is not known . * To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be consulted by other eyes , is not easy , nor possible , but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtain- ed ; and it was ...
Page 42
... afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible , and then ...
... afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible , and then ...
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