 | W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 pages
...and Exploits, not plainly seeming to be borrowed or devised. Defended fay many, denyed by few. For those old and inborn names of successive Kings, never...persons, or don in their lives at least som part of what hath so long bin remember'd, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity. — Milton's England.... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - England - 1826 - 450 pages
...folly of its authors." The poet evidently betrays a hankering in its favour." "To suppose," says he, " those old and inborn names of successive kings never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what hath been so long remembered,... | |
 | 1893 - 846 pages
...above his generation, could not bring himself to cast aside the fabled origin of Britain from Brutus. Those old and inborn names of successive kings, never...remember'd, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity. He shrank from the feeling that, if he were to lose hold of the tradition, incapable as... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...in affectation to make the Britain of one original 2 Holinshed. with the Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 544 pages
...in affectation to make the Britain of one original 1 Holinshed. with the Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...in affectation to make the Britain of one original 2 Holinshed. with the Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered,... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...Trojan tales, in affectation to make the Briton of one original with the Roman, pitched there,) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what has been so long remembered, cannot... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 pages
...of an English sentence. " For what though Brutus and the whole Trojan pretence were yielded up—yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never...their lives at least som part of what so long hath bin remembred, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity." (Ibid. b. 1.) remarkable peculiarities,... | |
 | Samuel Lysons - Anglo-Saxons - 1865 - 578 pages
...observation of our great poet, John Milton b, that "those old and inborn names of successive kings, never to have bin real persons or don in their lives at least som part of what so long hath been remembered cannot be thought without too strict incredulity." It is very probable that they were... | |
 | John Milton - Prose poems, English - 1889 - 554 pages
...Trojan tales in affectation to make the Britain of one original with the Roniiin, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered,... | |
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Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity. 
