The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... hand into the assembly . Here Selvaggi praised him in a dis- tich , and Salsilli in a tetrastic ; neither of them of much value . The Italians were gainers by this lite- rary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Mil- ton repaid ...
... hand into the assembly . Here Selvaggi praised him in a dis- tich , and Salsilli in a tetrastic ; neither of them of much value . The Italians were gainers by this lite- rary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Mil- ton repaid ...
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... hand , some squire of the body to his prelate , one who serves not at the altar only , but at the Court - cupboard , he will bestow on us a pretty model of himself ; and sets me out half a dozen phthisical mottoes , wherever he had them ...
... hand , some squire of the body to his prelate , one who serves not at the altar only , but at the Court - cupboard , he will bestow on us a pretty model of himself ; and sets me out half a dozen phthisical mottoes , wherever he had them ...
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... hands of the grave bishop that attended him , as a special relique of his saintly exercises , a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ? ' The papers which the king gave to Dr. Juxon on ...
... hands of the grave bishop that attended him , as a special relique of his saintly exercises , a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ? ' The papers which the king gave to Dr. Juxon on ...
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... with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . - Dr . J. interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in 30 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . - Dr . J. interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in 30 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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Including Translations ... interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal ...
Including Translations ... interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal ...
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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.