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Apology for Smectymnuus

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“make him at home forever by such passages as we have read this beautiful bright September morning, in the... Apology for Smectymnuus.”
Papers on Literature and Art · "this beautiful bright September morning"
Explicit dated reading statement: 'passages... we have read this beautiful bright September morning' in the Apology for Smectymnuus.

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II. Adolescence

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IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

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The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .

“The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .”

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“May many, born and bred amid the corruptions of a false world till the heart is on the verge of a desolate scepticism”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 October 1845. · 7 October 1845