...refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity npon the best pledges that I can give them. Although it...legitimate model. Each author arrogated to himself the fight of innovation, and their respective works may be considered as experiment* how far their peculiar...

...observation, insight into all seemly and generous .arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be xcompassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain...in 1660, including SIDNEY, HOOKER, RALEIGH, BACON, DURTON, BROWNE, and MILTON, it will appear that our language during this period was formed upon no...

...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." " We see him, however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in...

...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...

...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...

...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...

...pledges that I can give them. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much before-hand ; but that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Mr. Warton, who has cited the last sentence of this very interesting passage, as a proof that Milton,...

...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." i We see him however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the...

...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...

...solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and if hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." So that of Spenser : " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious...