This edition may be scarce, but one surely can be found.
'Milton's Sonnets (transcribe all this for John, as said by me to him) I think manly and dignified compositions, distinguished by simplicity and unity of object and aim, and undisfigured by false or vicious ornaments.
They are in several places incorrect, and sometimes uncouth in language, and, perhaps, in some, inharmonious; yet, upon the whole, I think the music exceedingly well suited to its end, that is, it has an energetic and varied flow of sound crowding into narrow room more of the combined effect of rhyme and blank verse than can be done by any other kind of verse I know.

The Sonnets of Milton which I like best are that to _Cyriack Skinner_; on his _Blindness_; _Captain or Colonel_; _Massacre of Piedmont_; _Cromwell_, except two last lines; _Fairfax_, &c.'[51] [51] _Memoirs_, i.

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_Death of Captain John Wordsworth_.
LETTER TO SIR GEORGE H.BEAUMONT, BART.
Grasmere, Feb.11.

1805.
MY DEAR FRIEND, The public papers will already have broken the shock which the sight of this letter will give you: you will have learned by them the loss of the Earl of Abergavenny East-Indiaman, and, along with her, of a great proportion of the crew,--that of her captain, our brother, and a most beloved brother he was.