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Page 62
... English reader may form his own judgment on the ex- tent of their testimony . " Now neither am I anxious to revisit reedy Cam , nor does the love of my lately forbidden college give me uneasiness . Fields naked and destitute of soft ...
... English reader may form his own judgment on the ex- tent of their testimony . " Now neither am I anxious to revisit reedy Cam , nor does the love of my lately forbidden college give me uneasiness . Fields naked and destitute of soft ...
Page 82
... English Muse , he produced some other small pieces of poetry in his native language , which are all distin- guished by beauties and faults and disco- ver strong power with an unformed taste , When , in the verses written " At a solemn ...
... English Muse , he produced some other small pieces of poetry in his native language , which are all distin- guished by beauties and faults and disco- ver strong power with an unformed taste , When , in the verses written " At a solemn ...
Page 83
... English poems , com- posed at this early stage of his life , there is much in all these pieces to be regretted and pardoned by the correct and classical reader . To his Latin poems however , of the same date , no such observation is in ...
... English poems , com- posed at this early stage of his life , there is much in all these pieces to be regretted and pardoned by the correct and classical reader . To his Latin poems however , of the same date , no such observation is in ...
Page 84
... English and metaphysical while his verse walks upon Roman feet , will never , as I am confident , be placed in com- petition with our author by any adequate and unprejudiced judge . I speak with more direct reference to his elegies ...
... English and metaphysical while his verse walks upon Roman feet , will never , as I am confident , be placed in com- petition with our author by any adequate and unprejudiced judge . I speak with more direct reference to his elegies ...
Page 86
... University exercises , un- der the title of " Prolusiones oratoriæ , ” and five of his familiar letters ; four of them in Latin to his old preceptors , Young and Gill , 1 and one in English , forming his answer to a 86 LIFE OF MILTON .
... University exercises , un- der the title of " Prolusiones oratoriæ , ” and five of his familiar letters ; four of them in Latin to his old preceptors , Young and Gill , 1 and one in English , forming his answer to a 86 LIFE OF MILTON .
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