...persuading some to be such really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I feign. I had my time, readers, as others have who have good...grave orators and historians, whose matter methought I Joved indeed, but, as my age then was, so I understood them; others were the smooth elegiac poets whereof...

...from the Creation. MILTON'S APOLOGY far himjelf, agaiitft the charge of frequenting brotbel-houfes. I Had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning beftowed upon them, to be fent to thofe places where, the opinion was, it might be fooneit attained,...

...this matter through the course of my years and studies. . .' He speaks first of his formal education: 'I had my time, readers, as others have who have good...whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them.' The ancient orators and historians were not the only subjects studied...

...persuading some to be such really themselves as they cannot believe me to be more than what I feign. I had my time, readers, as others have, who have good...whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them; others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce,...

...autobiography. They have been quoted a thousand times, but one of them may perhaps be quoted again. " I had my time, readers, as others have, who have good...grave orators and historians, whose matter methought 1 loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets,...