The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... retired to an estate . He had probably more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate VOL . I. B Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name VOL I LIFE of Milton, by Dr Johnson ENCOMIUMS ON ...
... retired to an estate . He had probably more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate VOL . I. B Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name VOL I LIFE of Milton, by Dr Johnson ENCOMIUMS ON ...
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Including Translations ... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as ... Latin 6 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
Including Translations ... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as ... Latin 6 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... Latin verses with classic ele- gance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Eliza- beth's reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision ...
... Latin verses with classic ele- gance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Eliza- beth's reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision ...
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... . When he left the university he returned to his father , then residing at Horton in Buckinghamshire , with whom he lived five years , in which time he is Isaid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers 10 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... . When he left the university he returned to his father , then residing at Horton in Buckinghamshire , with whom he lived five years , in which time he is Isaid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers 10 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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Including Translations ... Isaid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be un- derstood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done ...
Including Translations ... Isaid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be un- derstood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done ...
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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.