. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... nvaded Greece,Mlltiades at the head of the armywhich gained, B. c. 490, the glorious vic-tory of Marathon. But, shortly after,having failed in an attempt upon Paros,his grateful countrymen accused him oftreason; a heavy fine was imposed uponhim; and the hero died in prison, B. , of the wounds which he had receivedin fijjhting for Giccian independence. MILTON, John, the Homer of Britain,was born, Dec. 9, 1608, in Bread Street,in London, and vvas educated at St. PaulsSchool, an
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... nvaded Greece,Mlltiades at the head of the armywhich gained, B. c. 490, the glorious vic-tory of Marathon. But, shortly after,having failed in an attempt upon Paros,his grateful countrymen accused him oftreason; a heavy fine was imposed uponhim; and the hero died in prison, B. , of the wounds which he had receivedin fijjhting for Giccian independence. MILTON, John, the Homer of Britain,was born, Dec. 9, 1608, in Bread Street,in London, and vvas educated at St. PaulsSchool, and Christs College, he (piitted the university he passedfive years of studious retirement at hisfathers house at Ilorton, in Buckingham-shire; during which period he producedComu., Lycidas, and some of his otherpoems. In 1638 lie went to France,whence he proceeded to Italy. On hisreturn, after an absence of fifteen months,he opened an academy at Aldersgate Street,and began also to take a part in the con- MTN trovcrsies of the lime. He married la1643, but so scanty was his nuptial his wife leaving him to return to her par-ents in the course of a month, that hewas stimulated to write his treatise onDivorce, and to take measures fir pro-curing another helpmate. On hcrbccorainepenitent, however, he not only receivedher again, but gave her royalist father andbrothers an asylum in his house. He en-tered twice more into th< marriage zeal with which, in his Tenure ofKings and Magistrates, he vindicated theexecution of Charles I. induced the Councilof State to apjMjint him Latin secretary,and he thus became, in a manner, theliterary champion of the popular behalf of that cause he published idsIconoclastes, in answer to the Icon Basi-like, and his two Defences of the Peopleof England against the libels of Salmasiusand Du Moulin. In the execution of this noble task, as he calls it, he lost hi«sight; his previous weakness of the eyesterinina
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