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John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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noun

A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

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biographical

Part of SpeechadjectiveUsed In Literature ↓

Of or relating to an account of a person's life

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Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

attention should, also, be solicited on behalf of the notes, which will

be found to contain much matter, interesting both from biographical and

bibliographical points of view.

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Browning, Poet and Man, by E.L. Cary (New York, 1899).

(An extensive bibliography, biographical and critical, is given in the

Appendix to Sharp's Life of Browning; London, Walter Scott, 1890.)

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In 1780 the booksellers published, in separate form, four volumes of

Johnson’s “Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the most Eminent of

the English Poets.” The completion followed in 1781. “Sometime in

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arranged chronologically as appendices. Since a few journals and notebooks

were kept simultaneously, there is some overlap. General biographical

information is presented on the appropriate half-title for each of the eight

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