| John Seely Hart - American literature - 1873 - 348 pages
...of affairs led him to return to England sooner than he had intended. " When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...Sicily to Greece when, as he wrote afterwards in his " Second Defence of the People of England," " the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...the dearest hopes of his youth to visit this Athens in the body, but ' when I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling abroad while my fellow-citizens were fighting for... | |
| Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...Leonora Baroni. But the disturbances at home abridged his wanderings. ' When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while my fellow-citizens were... | |
| Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 840 pages
...the dearest hopes of his youth to visit this Athens in the body, but " when I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling abroad while my fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty... | |
| Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...the civil commotions in England, made me alter my purpose, for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad, while my fellow citizens were... | |
| John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while u* u my fellow-citizens... | |
| John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while 14* B my fellow-citizens... | |
| John Milton - 1877 - 554 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When 1 was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotior.s in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement... | |
| 1878 - 832 pages
...doing because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. "When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... | |
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