An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise LostChapman and Hall, 1855 - 484 sivua |
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... perhaps at that age the couplet was more grateful to my ear than the stanza . The two poems combined to hold me in an ecstasy of delight . Alas ! that such happy days can never return , not even in imagination ! Some time after - for in ...
... perhaps at that age the couplet was more grateful to my ear than the stanza . The two poems combined to hold me in an ecstasy of delight . Alas ! that such happy days can never return , not even in imagination ! Some time after - for in ...
Sivu vii
... perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve as a companion and introduction to my own edition of the Poems , it will answer that purpose with any edition . In the First Part , which is purely biographic ...
... perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve as a companion and introduction to my own edition of the Poems , it will answer that purpose with any edition . In the First Part , which is purely biographic ...
Sivu viii
... to illustrate that poem . Some parts of it may appear to be , and perhaps are , rather illustrative of Scrip- ture . I might say , they are therefore only the more valu- Few able ; but my real excuse for these , vili PREFACE .
... to illustrate that poem . Some parts of it may appear to be , and perhaps are , rather illustrative of Scrip- ture . I might say , they are therefore only the more valu- Few able ; but my real excuse for these , vili PREFACE .
Sivu ix
... perhaps appears to more advan- tage in my pages than he would in those of strict and rigorous truth . But where are such pages to be found ? It has not , I fear , been given to man to be strictly impar- tial in history . In all my works ...
... perhaps appears to more advan- tage in my pages than he would in those of strict and rigorous truth . But where are such pages to be found ? It has not , I fear , been given to man to be strictly impar- tial in history . In all my works ...
Sivu xi
... perhaps say without presumption that I am almost in- different to criticism : praise cannot elate , or censure de- press me . To the public expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been ...
... perhaps say without presumption that I am almost in- different to criticism : praise cannot elate , or censure de- press me . To the public expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been ...
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