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Page 23
... passage , however celebrated , has n not been Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , praised above its merit . It has beauty peculiar to itself , and must be numbered among those fe- licities which cannot be produced at will ...
... passage , however celebrated , has n not been Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , praised above its merit . It has beauty peculiar to itself , and must be numbered among those fe- licities which cannot be produced at will ...
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... passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not unfrequent in this first essay , but which it is to be supposed his maturer judgment disapproved , since in his latter works he has totally forborn them . 2009. li tud His rhymes are ...
... passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not unfrequent in this first essay , but which it is to be supposed his maturer judgment disapproved , since in his latter works he has totally forborn them . 2009. li tud His rhymes are ...
Page 28
... passage , that he might avoid the noise of the street . Here he received more boys to be boarded and in- structed . and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself ...
... passage , that he might avoid the noise of the street . Here he received more boys to be boarded and in- structed . and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself ...
Page 37
... passages . ” In a short time he took a house in the Artil- lery - walk , leading to Bunhill - fields ; the men- tion of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habitations . He lived longer in this place than any other ...
... passages . ” In a short time he took a house in the Artil- lery - walk , leading to Bunhill - fields ; the men- tion of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habitations . He lived longer in this place than any other ...
Page 39
... tenderness ; for though objec- and tions were made to particular passages , among them to the simile of the sun eclipsed in the first book , yet the license was granted ; and he sold his copy , April 27 , 1667 , MILTON . 39.
... tenderness ; for though objec- and tions were made to particular passages , among them to the simile of the sun eclipsed in the first book , yet the license was granted ; and he sold his copy , April 27 , 1667 , MILTON . 39.
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