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Page vii
... speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered in my bosom , in which every animating passion is nearly extinct , I might abundantly gratify the weakness by enumerating among my friends or ...
... speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered in my bosom , in which every animating passion is nearly extinct , I might abundantly gratify the weakness by enumerating among my friends or ...
Page x
... speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satis faction of speaking safely . Without acknow- ledging any thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principle to passion , inflicted , in the ...
... speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satis faction of speaking safely . Without acknow- ledging any thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principle to passion , inflicted , in the ...
Page 42
... speaking of the wedded sounds of the harmo- nious sisters , Voice and Verse , the young poet says that they are Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high - raised phantasy present That undisturbed song of pure ...
... speaking of the wedded sounds of the harmo- nious sisters , Voice and Verse , the young poet says that they are Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high - raised phantasy present That undisturbed song of pure ...
Page 43
... speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immedi- ately under our review , and which , evidently composed with the most entire affection , are executed on the whole with the ...
... speak with more direct reference to his elegies , which were all written in that interval of his life immedi- ately under our review , and which , evidently composed with the most entire affection , are executed on the whole with the ...
Page 52
... better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " Reasons of Church Gov. P. W. v . i . p . 123 . prefer the range of the world to the confine- ment 52 LIFE OF MILTON .
... better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " Reasons of Church Gov. P. W. v . i . p . 123 . prefer the range of the world to the confine- ment 52 LIFE OF MILTON .
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