Lucia Ames Mead: 2 books

John Milton was born in London in 1608; and it is chiefly the London of the twenty years that intervened between the Spanish Armada and his birth which we are to consider in this chapter.    As neither man nor anything that he has made can be well understood except as they are related to...

THE LONDON INTO WHICH MILTON WAS BORN To every well-read man whose mOther tongue is English, whether he be born in America or Australia or within sound of Bow Bells, the little dot upon the map, marked “London,” has an interest which surpasses that of any spot on earth. Though in his school-days...