Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 438
bout him; and, while teaching hisnephews, begins to lay out great literary schemes. i879-] MILTON. 413 Among numerous other subjects, he thinks of Par- changes in his home affairs,—his marriage with adise Lost, and even writes out a plan of the great Mary Powell; the births of three children, Debo-… … MILTON IN MANHOOD. Soon he sees that these poetic thinkings mustbe abandoned. His country is in distraction;civil war is coming. And when his country andhis God require him, shall he be dumb as abeast ? The need of strong prose, written onevery subject that affected liberty, was now greaterthan the…
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