The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... looks loose . ' In 1638 he left England , and went first to Paris ; where , by the favour of Lord Scudamore , he had the opportunity of visiting Grotius , then residing at the French court as ambassador from Christina of Sweden . From ...
... looks loose . ' In 1638 he left England , and went first to Paris ; where , by the favour of Lord Scudamore , he had the opportunity of visiting Grotius , then residing at the French court as ambassador from Christina of Sweden . From ...
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... look with some degree of merriment on great pro- mises and small performance ; on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are contend- ing for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours away his ...
... look with some degree of merriment on great pro- mises and small performance ; on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are contend- ing for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours away his ...
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... look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master , and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton's design is , that it requires the description of what cannot be des- cribed , the agency of spirits . He saw that imma ...
... look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master , and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton's design is , that it requires the description of what cannot be des- cribed , the agency of spirits . He saw that imma ...
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... looks Down - cast and damp ; yet such wherein appear'd Obscure some glimpse of joy , to ' have found their Chief Not in despair , to ' have found themselves not lost In loss itself ; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue : but ...
... looks Down - cast and damp ; yet such wherein appear'd Obscure some glimpse of joy , to ' have found their Chief Not in despair , to ' have found themselves not lost In loss itself ; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue : but ...
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... Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs . Darken'd so , yet shone Above them all ...
... Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs . Darken'd so , yet shone Above them all ...
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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.