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Page x
... perhaps the Church . This purpose was soon given up , and when Milton returned to his father's house he seems to have made up his mind that there was no profession which he cared to enter . He would choose the better part of studying ...
... perhaps the Church . This purpose was soon given up , and when Milton returned to his father's house he seems to have made up his mind that there was no profession which he cared to enter . He would choose the better part of studying ...
Page xi
... perhaps never become to any other English poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and ...
... perhaps never become to any other English poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and ...
Page xvii
... Perhaps this was the saddest part of the episode . Milton tells us in the Defensio Secunda that his eyesight was injured by excessive study in boyhood : " from the twelfth year of my age I scarce ever left my lessons and went to bed ...
... Perhaps this was the saddest part of the episode . Milton tells us in the Defensio Secunda that his eyesight was injured by excessive study in boyhood : " from the twelfth year of my age I scarce ever left my lessons and went to bed ...
Page xx
... perhaps it does so here . No doubt , Milton did gain very greatly by breathing awhile the larger air of public life , even though that air was often tainted by impurities . No doubt , too , twenty years of unrest and controversy must ...
... perhaps it does so here . No doubt , Milton did gain very greatly by breathing awhile the larger air of public life , even though that air was often tainted by impurities . No doubt , too , twenty years of unrest and controversy must ...
Page xxvii
... perhaps , heard the songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in England a poet of rare promise and exquisite performance . Copies of Comus were asked for ; it became " much desired1 . " At last ...
... perhaps , heard the songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in England a poet of rare promise and exquisite performance . Copies of Comus were asked for ; it became " much desired1 . " At last ...
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