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... ferment : such was the rotten society through which there passed , forty years later , the stern ploughshare of the civil war .. Of course Milton's mind could not but take color in large measure from sane giants , and 18 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... ferment : such was the rotten society through which there passed , forty years later , the stern ploughshare of the civil war .. Of course Milton's mind could not but take color in large measure from sane giants , and 18 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
Page 271
... passed in 1662. Milton's great epic barely escaped being strangled at its birth by the malignity or the perverse sagacity of a Mr. Tomkyns , then acting as licenser . The quick nostril of this suspicious and alert offi- cial scented ...
... passed in 1662. Milton's great epic barely escaped being strangled at its birth by the malignity or the perverse sagacity of a Mr. Tomkyns , then acting as licenser . The quick nostril of this suspicious and alert offi- cial scented ...
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... passed the last fourteen years of his life in sullen gloom , plunged in penury , soured by disap- pointment , * uncheered by sympathy or appre- ciation . Nothing could be more untrue , noth- ing could be more unjust to his memory ...
... passed the last fourteen years of his life in sullen gloom , plunged in penury , soured by disap- pointment , * uncheered by sympathy or appre- ciation . Nothing could be more untrue , noth- ing could be more unjust to his memory ...
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