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Page 7
... just measure of its information . Its demand however for correction has proved to be less than I had reason to apprehend ; and on looking on every side for some fresh sources * of PREFACE . 7 as I think, that his absence from the Univer ...
... just measure of its information . Its demand however for correction has proved to be less than I had reason to apprehend ; and on looking on every side for some fresh sources * of PREFACE . 7 as I think, that his absence from the Univer ...
Page 68
... less agitated moments which it was then my fortune to enjoy , it is perhaps the worst of those versions which I have had the confidence to offer to the public . But I will not now either replace it with another , or even essentially ...
... less agitated moments which it was then my fortune to enjoy , it is perhaps the worst of those versions which I have had the confidence to offer to the public . But I will not now either replace it with another , or even essentially ...
Page 89
... less available to dissuade prolonged obscurity , a desire of ho- nour and repute and immortal fame seated in the breast of every true scholar , which all make haste to by the readiest ways of pub- lishing and divulging conceived merits ...
... less available to dissuade prolonged obscurity , a desire of ho- nour and repute and immortal fame seated in the breast of every true scholar , which all make haste to by the readiest ways of pub- lishing and divulging conceived merits ...
Page 91
... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which time leads me , and the will of ...
... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which time leads me , and the will of ...
Page 103
... less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing which might have been corrected by the revising judgment of its author : but its errors , in thought or in language , are so few and trivial that they ...
... less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this poem there may be some- thing which might have been corrected by the revising judgment of its author : but its errors , in thought or in language , are so few and trivial that they ...
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admirable agni Andrew Marvell asserted atque bishop bosom cause censure Charles CHARLES SYMMONS church Church of England composition Comus consequence critic Cromwell Damon death Defence Deodati discovered divine domino jam domum impasti edition England English enim etiam fame fancy father favour genius hæc hand hath honour Il Penseroso immediately ipse Isaac Vossius jam non vacat JOHN MILTON King Latin Lauder learned letter liberty literary Long Parliament Lycidas malè ment merit mihi Milton mind Morus Muse neque nihil nunc object occasion opinion panegyric Paradise Lost Parliament passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry possessed praise prelate present quæ quam quid quis quod quoque racter reader regard remark respect Salmasius says seems sibi Smectymnuus sonnet speak spirit tamen taste thing thou tibi tion translation truth verse virtue Warton writer