The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes , bearing each a part in the repre- sentation . his Arcades ; ' for , while he lived at THE LIFE OF MILTON . 11.
... this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes , bearing each a part in the repre- sentation . his Arcades ; ' for , while he lived at THE LIFE OF MILTON . 11.
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... nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with an impetus or ostrum , and his daughter was immediately called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty ...
... nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with an impetus or ostrum , and his daughter was immediately called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty ...
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... night and morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his unpremeditated verse . Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so ...
... night and morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his unpremeditated verse . Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so ...
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... night ; but afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew ...
... night ; but afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew ...
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... night were only one hundred and thirty pounds , though Dr. Newton brought a large contribution ; and twenty pounds were given by Tonson , a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds were placed in ...
... night were only one hundred and thirty pounds , though Dr. Newton brought a large contribution ; and twenty pounds were given by Tonson , a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds were placed in ...
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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.