The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... fays , " I was the fashion in those days to wear much ribbon , which fome adorn'd with tags of metal at the end , ” Life of Milton , p . cxx . Points are faid to have been metal hooks , fastened to the hose or breeches , which had no ...
... fays , " I was the fashion in those days to wear much ribbon , which fome adorn'd with tags of metal at the end , ” Life of Milton , p . cxx . Points are faid to have been metal hooks , fastened to the hose or breeches , which had no ...
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... fay Adam is not Æneas , or Eye Helen . I fhall therefore examine it by the rules of epick poetry , and fee whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are effential to that kind of writing . The first thing to ...
... fay Adam is not Æneas , or Eye Helen . I fhall therefore examine it by the rules of epick poetry , and fee whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are effential to that kind of writing . The first thing to ...
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... fay , without derogating from those wonderful performances , that there is an indifputable and unqueftioned magnificence in every part of Paradife Loft , and indeed a much greater than could have been formed upon any pagan fyftem . But ...
... fay , without derogating from those wonderful performances , that there is an indifputable and unqueftioned magnificence in every part of Paradife Loft , and indeed a much greater than could have been formed upon any pagan fyftem . But ...
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... fays doctor Newton , " reckons only ten days to the action of the Poem ; that is , he fuppofes that our firft ... fay , as he is reprefented faying , ere this diurnal ftar leave cold the night , B. x . 1069 ? Dr. Newton however ...
... fays doctor Newton , " reckons only ten days to the action of the Poem ; that is , he fuppofes that our firft ... fay , as he is reprefented faying , ere this diurnal ftar leave cold the night , B. x . 1069 ? Dr. Newton however ...
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... fay against it ; for it is in the book of games and diver- fions , where the reader's mind may be fuppofed to be fufficiently relaxed for fuch an entertainment . The only piece of pleafantry in Paradife Loft , is where the evil Spirits ...
... fay against it ; for it is in the book of games and diver- fions , where the reader's mind may be fuppofed to be fufficiently relaxed for fuch an entertainment . The only piece of pleafantry in Paradife Loft , is where the evil Spirits ...
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