The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... hell grows darker at his frown . His father , after Reading was taken by Essex , came to reside in his house ; and his school in- creased ... At Whitsuntide , in his thirty - fifth year , he married Mary , the daughter of Mr. Powel , a ...
... hell grows darker at his frown . His father , after Reading was taken by Essex , came to reside in his house ; and his school in- creased ... At Whitsuntide , in his thirty - fifth year , he married Mary , the daughter of Mr. Powel , a ...
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... Hell , or accompany the choirs of Heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth , and tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise wonder by the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight ...
... Hell , or accompany the choirs of Heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth , and tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise wonder by the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight ...
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... Hell we are surely interested , as we are all to reside hereafter either in the regions of horror or of bliss . But these truths are too important to be new ; they have been taught to our infancy : they have mingled with our solitary ...
... Hell we are surely interested , as we are all to reside hereafter either in the regions of horror or of bliss . But these truths are too important to be new ; they have been taught to our infancy : they have mingled with our solitary ...
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... Hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the vacuity , and is supported by a gust of rising vapours , he has a body ; when he animates the toad , he seems to be mere spirit , that can penetrate matter at pleasure ; when he ...
... Hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the vacuity , and is supported by a gust of rising vapours , he has a body ; when he animates the toad , he seems to be mere spirit , that can penetrate matter at pleasure ; when he ...
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... Hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the alle- gory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have been allowed ; but they ...
... Hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the alle- gory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have been allowed ; but they ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.