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The Lives of the English Poets - Page 96
by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pages
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 2

Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...so that at length they were all sent out to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufactures that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver."* The glory of Shakspeare's name began and ended with himself,—his own unheritable self. We hope that...
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Life of Milton

David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...the year 1669 all the three sisters, according to Phillips, were " sent out to learn some curious or ingenious sorts of manufacture that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroidery in gold and silver." Accordingly, during the last four or five years of his life we are...
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English Puritanism and Its Leaders: Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan

John Tulloch - 1861 - 536 pages
...about the year 1669 all the three daughters had gone, according to Phillips, " to learn some curious or ingenious sorts of manufacture that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroidery in gold and silver." Two of them subsequently married — the eldest and youngest — the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...but broke out more and more into expressions of uneasiness ; so that at length they wera :ill (even the eldest also) sent out to learn some curious and...learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver. It had been happy indeed if the daughters of sneh a person had been made in some measure inheritrixes...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 6

David Masson - 1880 - 874 pages
...Phillips, " they were all, even the " eldest also, sent out to learn some curious and ingenious " sorte of manufacture that are proper for women to learn, " particularly embroideries in gold or silver." This may have been the stepmother's suggestion. The step, at all events, was a wise one, and ought...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions ..., Volume 1

John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...broke out more and more into " expressions of uneasiness ; so that at length they were all (even " the eldest also) sent out to learn some curious and...sorts of manufacture that are proper for women to learn—par" ticularly, embroideries in gold and silver." If this first sending out of the daughters...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost

John Milton - 1874 - 468 pages
...been a really judicious arrangement of their step-mother, been sent out, at their father's expense, " to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manu"facture that are proper for women to learn, parti" cularly embroideries in gold and silver." From that time, therefore, Milton and his wife Elizabeth...
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The Life of John Milton: 1660-2674

David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...books and papers, nothing but papers and books ! " At length," says Phillips, " they were all, even the " eldest also, sent out to learn some curious...learn, " particularly embroideries in gold or silver." This may have been the stepmother's suggestion. The step, at all events, was a wise one, and ought...
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The Poetical Works ...

John Milton - 1882 - 396 pages
...been a really judicious arrangement of their stepmother, been sent out, at their father's expense, "to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture...women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold and silver." From that time, therefore, Milton and his wife Elizabeth had been by themselves in the...
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Brave Lives and Noble

Clara L. Matéaux - 1883 - 344 pages
...employment could not be concealed, and they broke out more and more, until at length they were all sent out to learn some curious and ingenious sorts...manufacture that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroidering in gold and silver." IN TROUBLED TIMES. Lord it belongs not to my care, Whether I die...
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