The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 páginas |
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... father , who , with a daughter , the delight , and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of existence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candor now ...
... father , who , with a daughter , the delight , and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of existence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candor now ...
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... father , who , with a daughter , the delight , and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of existence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candor now ...
... father , who , with a daughter , the delight , and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of existence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candor now ...
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... father , for becoming a convert to the protestant faith . To whom the family property was be- queathed from the right heir we are not inform- ed : but we know that the son , on this disap- pointment of fortune , left his station at ...
... father , for becoming a convert to the protestant faith . To whom the family property was be- queathed from the right heir we are not inform- ed : but we know that the son , on this disap- pointment of fortune , left his station at ...
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... father in marriage , with a considerable fortune , to Mr. Edward Philips , a native of Shrewsbury ; who , coming ... father's house in Bread Street , on the 9th and was baptized on the 20th of December , 1608. His promise of future ...
... father in marriage , with a considerable fortune , to Mr. Edward Philips , a native of Shrewsbury ; who , coming ... father's house in Bread Street , on the 9th and was baptized on the 20th of December , 1608. His promise of future ...
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... father , in competent in- deed but by no means in affluent circumstances , could not have been a common child9 . " My father destined me ( our author says ) , when I was yet a little boy , to the study of ele- gant literature ; and , so ...
... father , in competent in- deed but by no means in affluent circumstances , could not have been a common child9 . " My father destined me ( our author says ) , when I was yet a little boy , to the study of ele- gant literature ; and , so ...
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Página 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 184 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Página 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Página 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 101 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...