Britain Under Trojan Roman Saxon Rule

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330409299
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule written by John Milton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule Although the fame of John- Milton rests chiefly upon his poetry, yet his intellect was of so high an order, that no work of his but will be found well worth perusal. In the history now reprinted, will be found many passages characteristic of the writer, the materials being copious, curious, carefully arranged, written with great truthfulness, abounding energy, and sometimes with surpassing grandeur in sentiment and expression. The poet became a historian in 1639, soon after the blight of blindness had fallen upon him ; the book was published in 1670, but mutilated by the censor of the press; many remarks of the gifted writer being distasteful to the cavalier interest. The suppressed passages appeared in the edition of 1681, and ot the prose writings of Milton, published in 1738, his history of England forms a part-the copy whence were formed these pages will be found in Connect's England, vol. i. fol. edition, 1719. John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, December 9, 1608, his father being a scrivener there. From St. Paul's school, where, lie received the rudiments of his education, he was sent to Christ's College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. there in 1628, and in 1632 his M.A. degree. On the death of his mother, in 1635, his father permitted him to visit the continent, where he spent some fifteen months being received into the elite of literary circles in France and Italy. The gathering troubles of civil war recalled Milton to England, where espousing the puritan side, soon after Cromwell became firm in power, he became Latin secretary to government, a place he was eminently qualified to fill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.