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Pàgina vii
... printed by an enterprising individual in Edinburgh , the London booksellers were scandalized at what one of their ... printing a more elegant and extensive collection on their own account . To give this edition still further advantages ...
... printed by an enterprising individual in Edinburgh , the London booksellers were scandalized at what one of their ... printing a more elegant and extensive collection on their own account . To give this edition still further advantages ...
Pàgina 2
... printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he ...
... printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he ...
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... printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected , while others for their money carried away ...
... printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected , while others for their money carried away ...
Pàgina 45
... Printing . " The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of government , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what ...
... Printing . " The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of government , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what ...
Pàgina 49
... printed at Cambridge , had the use of those collections in three folios ; but what was their fate afterwards is not known . † * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an ...
... printed at Cambridge , had the use of those collections in three folios ; but what was their fate afterwards is not known . † * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an ...
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