An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise Lost |
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... poetic feeling . To my own mind that time is ever present . It was just as I was emerging from mere boyhood ; the season was summer ; the scene a residence amid wood and water , at the foot of mountains , over which I beheld each ...
... poetic feeling . To my own mind that time is ever present . It was just as I was emerging from mere boyhood ; the season was summer ; the scene a residence amid wood and water , at the foot of mountains , over which I beheld each ...
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... Mishnas ; for I do not think he gathered any poetic fruit in these thickets . With our own old literature and with that of modern Italy I have long been familiar ; while on that of Greece and Rome I have bestowed only too vi PREFACE .
... Mishnas ; for I do not think he gathered any poetic fruit in these thickets . With our own old literature and with that of modern Italy I have long been familiar ; while on that of Greece and Rome I have bestowed only too vi PREFACE .
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... poetic genius at the age of ten years ; and it may have been this , combined with his beauty , for Nature had been ... poet became a great favourite , and their intimacy HIS BIRTH . 5.
... poetic genius at the age of ten years ; and it may have been this , combined with his beauty , for Nature had been ... poet became a great favourite , and their intimacy HIS BIRTH . 5.
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... poetic elegies , etc. , on the deaths of dis- tinguished persons , which it was at that time customary in the Universities to impose on those eminent for their skill in Latin or English versification . But to the mind of Milton the ...
... poetic elegies , etc. , on the deaths of dis- tinguished persons , which it was at that time customary in the Universities to impose on those eminent for their skill in Latin or English versification . But to the mind of Milton the ...
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... poet's intercourse at Florence however does not appear to have been confined to the men of letters , for he would also seem ... poetic powers . But his most valuable acquaintance at Rome seems to have been Lucas Holstein , or , as it was ...
... poet's intercourse at Florence however does not appear to have been confined to the men of letters , for he would also seem ... poetic powers . But his most valuable acquaintance at Rome seems to have been Lucas Holstein , or , as it was ...
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