Excerpt from Milton on the Continent: A Key to L'allegro and IL Penseroso, With Several Illustrations, a Historical Chart, and an Original Potrait of Galileo Seven years later, returning to Bex and opening my hotel window, it occurred to me that the description, not only of the 'towers and battlements, ' but of the whole scene of the new pleasures, ' was remarkably applicable to the panorama of Bex. I therefore began the research, with no view to contradict learned critics, but as a pure lover and follower of the truth-seeking Milton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.