The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas , ' an elegy , written in 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of Sir ...
... never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas , ' an elegy , written in 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of Sir ...
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... never greatly admired , but now much less . ' This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been ...
... never greatly admired , but now much less . ' This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been ...
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... never long out of his thoughts . About this time ( 1645 ) a collection of his Latin and English poems appeared , in which the Allegro ' and Penseroso , ' with some others , were first pub- lished . 6 " He had taken a larger house in ...
... never long out of his thoughts . About this time ( 1645 ) a collection of his Latin and English poems appeared , in which the Allegro ' and Penseroso , ' with some others , were first pub- lished . 6 " He had taken a larger house in ...
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... never be de- rived . No man forgets his original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ...
... never be de- rived . No man forgets his original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ...
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... never was pretended ; he himself founded his right only in ne- cessity ; but Milton , having now tasted the honey of public employment , would not return to hunger and philosophy , but , continuing to exercise his office under a ...
... never was pretended ; he himself founded his right only in ne- cessity ; but Milton , having now tasted the honey of public employment , would not return to hunger and philosophy , but , continuing to exercise his office under a ...
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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.