A Sketch of the Life and Works of John Milton: From a Course of Lectures Held at the Victoria Lyceum During the Winter of 1885-1886 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled! The maid asks after her brothers. He declares that he saw two youths in the forest whom he took for some gods; to these he chars to conduct her, and she trusting him accepts his.

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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Works of John Milton: From a Course of Lectures Held at the Victoria Lyceum During the Winter of 1885-1886

The family of John Milton probably derives its name from the parish of Great Milton near Thame in Oxfordshire. The grandfather of the poet was a veoman:at Stanton St.J9hn, about ve miles from Oxford, and at the same time under-ranger of the forest of Shotover, His son, John by name, jqjned the Anglican church and was in consequence disinherited by the father who remained faithful to Rome. Jonn1lg11ton then -went up to London wherehe set up in business as a scrivener, a position in which be performed the motions of a solicitor of our own day. He succeeded, and acquired a considgrable fortune which he owed to his industry and intelligence. He lived in the heart of the City, Bread Street, Cheapside, in a house which bore the sign of the Spread Eagle. Here, John Milton the poet, was born on the 9 of December 1608. His childhood was happy angl rich In promise. From his father who was an excellent musician and distinguished himself even as a composer, he learned the art which was destined to distract and to soothe him in his blindness; his private tutor, Thomas Young, as well as the headmaster of St. Pauls School which he afterwards frequented as a day scholar, Alexander Gill, were men of note, the latter especially was one of the best scholars and the greatest pedagogue of his time. Young Milton studied with extraordinary zeal, reading deep into the night, whereby he sowed already when a boy the seeds of that malady which was to destroy his eyesight. At sixteen he went to college. being admitted as a pensioner of Christs Cambridge in 1625 Here he continued his comprehensive reading for seven years, taking his degrees at B.A. and M.A. in due time. How beautiful.hewas at this time of his life, and how gentle were his manners is attested by the nickname which his rougher companions gave him. calling him . the lady of the college At Cambridge he felt-1.he first stirrings of his genius. Besidesma number of Latin poems which far surpass the ordinary college exercises, he wrote some ne sonnets and his Ode on the Nativity,- atChristmasd 629 a poem Tull ofpromise but at the same time somewharlaboured and in some passages chilled Q1conceit, In the mean time his father had retired from business and had xed his abode in the 1 ittlevillageof Hin the southern part of Buckinghamshire, the very heart of the sweet rural scenery of Central England. Here he was. in 1632. jmned by the young student from Cambridge, who, though already 24 years old, had not yet formed-

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