Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Milton” in chapter 4, page 86 of George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor:
... on horseback, though with a postilion, who took a good deal of luggage; but I like to remember that even in those countries I carried a few books, and that I never separated myself from Shakespeare, Milton , Dante, and the Greek Testament, which I have still in the same copies I then used.
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