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praises himself, he does it with that dignified frankness and simplicity of conscious truth, which render even egotism respectable and delightful; whether he describes the fervent and tender emotions of his juvenile fancy, or delineates his situation in the decline of life, when he had to struggle with calamity and peril, the more insight he affords us into his own sentiments and feelings the more reason we find both to love, and to revere, him.

NOTE 47. Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante.

This is the last Italian sonnet of Milton, that has reached our time, but others have existed, which are mentioned in the following note of Mr. Warton.

"In 1762, the late Mr. Thomas Hollis examined the Laurentian library at Florence for six Italian sonnets of Milton, addressed to his friend Chimentelli: and for other Italian and Latin compositions, and variousoriginal letters said to be remaining in manuscript at FloHe searched also for an original bust in marble of Milton, supposed to be somewhere in that city but he was unsuccessful in his curious enquiries.”

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