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" The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignorance*. The women had not then aspired to literature 3, nor was every... "
Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland - Σελίδα 43
των Samuel Johnson - 1894
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