The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... . presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Igno- > Mutes . rance , Fear , Death , Likewise Winter , To whom he gives their names . 34 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... . presented by an angel with Labour , Grief , Hatred , Envy , War , Famine , Pestilence , Sickness , Discontent , Igno- > Mutes . rance , Fear , Death , Likewise Winter , To whom he gives their names . 34 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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Including Translations ... Likewise Winter , To whom he gives their names . Heat , Tempest , & c . Faith , Hope , Charity , comfort him and instruct him . Chorus briefly concludes . Such was his first design , which could have pro ...
Including Translations ... Likewise Winter , To whom he gives their names . Heat , Tempest , & c . Faith , Hope , Charity , comfort him and instruct him . Chorus briefly concludes . Such was his first design , which could have pro ...
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... gives God the glory , submits to his penalty . The Chorus briefly concludes . Compare this with the former draught . These are very imperfect rudiments of ' Paradise Lost ; ' but it is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state ...
... gives God the glory , submits to his penalty . The Chorus briefly concludes . Compare this with the former draught . These are very imperfect rudiments of ' Paradise Lost ; ' but it is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state ...
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... gives it , that he need make no provi- sion before his journey ; and if strangers visit us , it is their business to practise such conformity to our modes as they expect from us in their own coun- tries . Elwood complied with the ...
... gives it , that he need make no provi- sion before his journey ; and if strangers visit us , it is their business to practise such conformity to our modes as they expect from us in their own coun- tries . Elwood complied with the ...
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... gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , ' that though our Author had daily about him one or other to read , some persons of man's estate , who , of their own accord , greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers ...
... gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , ' that though our Author had daily about him one or other to read , some persons of man's estate , who , of their own accord , greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.