John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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... Latin and Greek , and such as have the very Roman eloquence joined with wisdom , especially Christian authors that wrote their wisdom with clean and chaste Latin , either in verse or in prose , for my intent is by this school especially ...
... Latin and Greek , and such as have the very Roman eloquence joined with wisdom , especially Christian authors that wrote their wisdom with clean and chaste Latin , either in verse or in prose , for my intent is by this school especially ...
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... Latin in favour of a better love , the mother tongue . The circumstance of death , now personally brought home to him , enables him to speak with a tenderness not present in the Latin lamentations : O fairest flower , no sooner blown ...
... Latin in favour of a better love , the mother tongue . The circumstance of death , now personally brought home to him , enables him to speak with a tenderness not present in the Latin lamentations : O fairest flower , no sooner blown ...
Page 97
... Latin poems in the edition of 1645. The language is extravag- ant , but not for that reason insincere . Dati hails him as a new Ulysses who had , whether in mind or body , surveyed the whole world of civilisation , as a polyglot on ...
... Latin poems in the edition of 1645. The language is extravag- ant , but not for that reason insincere . Dati hails him as a new Ulysses who had , whether in mind or body , surveyed the whole world of civilisation , as a polyglot on ...
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