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About four o'clock on a September morning of 1665,--when the sun was not yet shining upon his windows facing the Artillery Fields, and the autumnal dew lay wet upon his garden leaves,--John Milton awoke with his customary punctuality, and, true to his austere and abstemious mo...
About four o'clock on a September morning of 1665,--when the sun was not yet shining upon his windows facing the Artillery Fields, and the autumnal dew lay wet upon his garden l...
2. Part 2Dinner despatched, the master of the house, led by his devoted friends, went out into the garden. A garden was the desideratum of his existence, and he had never been without on...