The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... delights of desultory study , but from the desire of obtaining more fitness for his task : and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late , so it gives advantage to be more fit . When he left the university he returned to his ...
... delights of desultory study , but from the desire of obtaining more fitness for his task : and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late , so it gives advantage to be more fit . When he left the university he returned to his ...
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... his introduction to Manso Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him for every THE LIFE OF MILTON . 13.
... his introduction to Manso Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him for every THE LIFE OF MILTON . 13.
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... delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , having for a month led a philosophic life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much company and joviality , her friends , possibly ...
... delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , having for a month led a philosophic life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much company and joviality , her friends , possibly ...
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... delights himself with teasing his adversary as much as with confuting him . He makes a foolish allusion of Salmasius , whose doctrine he considers as servile and unmanly , to the stream of Salmacis , which , whoever entered , left half ...
... delights himself with teasing his adversary as much as with confuting him . He makes a foolish allusion of Salmasius , whose doctrine he considers as servile and unmanly , to the stream of Salmacis , which , whoever entered , left half ...
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... delighted to find him defied and in- sulted by a new name , not yet considered as any one's rival . If Christina , as is said , commended the ' Defence of the People , ' her purpose must be to torment Salmasius , who was then at court ...
... delighted to find him defied and in- sulted by a new name , not yet considered as any one's rival . If Christina , as is said , commended the ' Defence of the People , ' her purpose must be to torment Salmasius , who was then at court ...
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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.