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Page 108
... were physicians ; and Barrow had probably the liberality of mind natural to his
profession , and had moreover been an army - physician and associate of
Cromwellians in the Commonwealth time . He survived Milton more than seven
years ...
... were physicians ; and Barrow had probably the liberality of mind natural to his
profession , and had moreover been an army - physician and associate of
Cromwellians in the Commonwealth time . He survived Milton more than seven
years ...
Page 110
... and which is Dryden's favourite kind , you see how the necessity of finding a
rhyme to offend forces me to end the next line with commend , though it is a
weaker and less natural word than the one that might otherwise have suggested
itself .
... and which is Dryden's favourite kind , you see how the necessity of finding a
rhyme to offend forces me to end the next line with commend , though it is a
weaker and less natural word than the one that might otherwise have suggested
itself .
Page 111
... as later research has done , whether its origin was Celtic or Oriental , or to what
natural causes its origin among the races that first used it , and its rapid adoption
everywhere in the vernacular poetry of modern Europe , are to be attributed .
... as later research has done , whether its origin was Celtic or Oriental , or to what
natural causes its origin among the races that first used it , and its rapid adoption
everywhere in the vernacular poetry of modern Europe , are to be attributed .
Page 115
484-6 . 32 . “ For one restraint , lords of the world besides . ” Mr. Keightley
understands For to mean But for , and points as if the passage meant “ being
lords of the world besides , but for one restraint . ” But surely the more natural ...
484-6 . 32 . “ For one restraint , lords of the world besides . ” Mr. Keightley
understands For to mean But for , and points as if the passage meant “ being
lords of the world besides , but for one restraint . ” But surely the more natural ...
Page 121
... as in many others of the similes of Milton , the habit , natural to the poetic mind ,
of pursuing a comparison , once suggested , beyond the mere limits of illustrative
likeness , for the sake of a rich accumulation of circumstance beautiful in itself .
... as in many others of the similes of Milton , the habit , natural to the poetic mind ,
of pursuing a comparison , once suggested , beyond the mere limits of illustrative
likeness , for the sake of a rich accumulation of circumstance beautiful in itself .
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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