Complete Poems and Major Prose, Volume 1957TEXTBOOK CONTAINING THE COMPLETE POEMS AND MAJOR PROSE OF JOHN MILTON. |
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... Latin and English senses . But are we sure that Milton had a special fond- ness for Latin even though he wrote a great deal of it for publication ? Excellent and powerful though his Latin style was , it was not quite idiomatic in the ...
... Latin and English senses . But are we sure that Milton had a special fond- ness for Latin even though he wrote a great deal of it for publication ? Excellent and powerful though his Latin style was , it was not quite idiomatic in the ...
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... Latin meaning of " burnt " or " reduced to ashes . " 519. missive ruin : missile destruction . Both words have their basic , Latin meaning . The in- centive ( " kindling " ) reed is the gunner's match . 520. pernicious keeps its Latin ...
... Latin meaning of " burnt " or " reduced to ashes . " 519. missive ruin : missile destruction . Both words have their basic , Latin meaning . The in- centive ( " kindling " ) reed is the gunner's match . 520. pernicious keeps its Latin ...
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... Latin . open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue , but are observed by all other nations to speak ex- ceeding close and inward ; so that to smat- ter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law ...
... Latin . open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue , but are observed by all other nations to speak ex- ceeding close and inward ; so that to smat- ter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law ...
Contents
THE MINOR POEMS | 3 |
Writing Certain Treatises | 143 |
On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catharine Thomason My Christian Friend Deceased 16 December | 145 |
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