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... Milton would scarcely have exchanged places with the proudest worldly potentates . The sun - lit pinnacles of Parnassus are more glorious than a gilded chair . No man has so exalted an opinion of his own profession as an author . " Such ...
... Milton would scarcely have exchanged places with the proudest worldly potentates . The sun - lit pinnacles of Parnassus are more glorious than a gilded chair . No man has so exalted an opinion of his own profession as an author . " Such ...
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... Milton would not desist from his literary avocations , though warned by his physicians of the certain loss of his sight . He preferred his fame to his comfort . To create those mighty works that are meant for an immor- tality on earth ...
... Milton would not desist from his literary avocations , though warned by his physicians of the certain loss of his sight . He preferred his fame to his comfort . To create those mighty works that are meant for an immor- tality on earth ...
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... Milton could revisit the scenes of his earthly pilgrimage , glori- fied by his halo of eternal fame , he would be almost worshipped as a god . Mankind would prostrate themselves at his feet . · There is something so ethereal in the ...
... Milton could revisit the scenes of his earthly pilgrimage , glori- fied by his halo of eternal fame , he would be almost worshipped as a god . Mankind would prostrate themselves at his feet . · There is something so ethereal in the ...
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... Milton proudly asserts , " God and good men have decreed as the reward of those whose published labours have benefitted man- kind . " He may possibly look back upon this mortal world with an affectionate greeting , and cherish a ...
... Milton proudly asserts , " God and good men have decreed as the reward of those whose published labours have benefitted man- kind . " He may possibly look back upon this mortal world with an affectionate greeting , and cherish a ...
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... Milton , or Byron and Wordsworth , or to produce a work of whatever kind , which the world would not willingly let die . A reader is as little curious about the number of hours which I hate all those nonsensical stories about Lope de ...
... Milton , or Byron and Wordsworth , or to produce a work of whatever kind , which the world would not willingly let die . A reader is as little curious about the number of hours which I hate all those nonsensical stories about Lope de ...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1 David Lester Richardson Visualização integral - 1840 |
Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1 David Lester Richardson Visualização integral - 1840 |
Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1 David Lester Richardson Visualização integral - 1840 |
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admiration Anna Seward Atossa beauty Bolingbroke breath bright calm Chalkhill character Charlotte Smith charms cheerful Clearchus clouds conversation critics dear death delightful dreams Dryden Duchess of Marlborough E'en Earl of Marchmont egotism egotist Essay Essay on Criticism external face faculty fair fame fancy feeling friendship genius gleam glorious glory happy harmony hath heart Horace Walpole human intellectual John Chalkhill Johnson labour Leigh Hunt less light lines literary look Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron mankind Marchmont memory Milton mind Montaigne nature never night o'er observed once passage passion perhaps persons physiognomy pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader remarks says scene seems Shakspeare silent smile Sonnets soul sound speak spirit stanza strange sweet taste tender Thealma thine things thou thought tion truth verse voice Walton words writer