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... nature's part in me ; and for their matter , which what it is there be few who know not , I was so allured to read , that no recreation came to me better welcome . " But of the elegiac writers , Ovid seems to have been his favourite and ...
... nature's part in me ; and for their matter , which what it is there be few who know not , I was so allured to read , that no recreation came to me better welcome . " But of the elegiac writers , Ovid seems to have been his favourite and ...
Page 48
... nature , no lesse availeable to dissuade prolonged obscurity , a desire of ho- nour and repute and immortall fame seated in the brest of every true scholar , which all make hast to by the readiest ways of pub- lishing 48 LIFE OF MILTON .
... nature , no lesse availeable to dissuade prolonged obscurity , a desire of ho- nour and repute and immortall fame seated in the brest of every true scholar , which all make hast to by the readiest ways of pub- lishing 48 LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 49
... Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it wou'd sooner follow ...
... Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it wou'd sooner follow ...
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... nature , Naturam non pati senium , possesses the merit , in a most uncommon degree , of poetic fancy , and of poetic dic- tion . Vide Milton's letter to Alexander Gill , July 2 , 1628 . bo shire , where his father lived on a competent ...
... nature , Naturam non pati senium , possesses the merit , in a most uncommon degree , of poetic fancy , and of poetic dic- tion . Vide Milton's letter to Alexander Gill , July 2 , 1628 . bo shire , where his father lived on a competent ...
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... nature or through destiny be so circumstanced , as to be incapable by any struggles or exer- tions of my own of attaining such an honourable elevation : but neither gods , I trust , nor men , will forbid my looking up to such as have ...
... nature or through destiny be so circumstanced , as to be incapable by any struggles or exer- tions of my own of attaining such an honourable elevation : but neither gods , I trust , nor men , will forbid my looking up to such as have ...
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