The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : -Quid agas , cum dira et fœdior ...
... pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : -Quid agas , cum dira et fœdior ...
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... with rusty green ; pale but not cadaverous , with chalkstones in his hand . He said , that , if it were not for the gout , his blindness would be tolerable . In the intervals of his pain , being made unable THE LIFE OF MILTON . 43.
... with rusty green ; pale but not cadaverous , with chalkstones in his hand . He said , that , if it were not for the gout , his blindness would be tolerable . In the intervals of his pain , being made unable THE LIFE OF MILTON . 43.
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Including Translations ... In the intervals of his pain , being made unable to use the common exercises , he used to swing in a chair , and sometimes played upon an organ . He was now confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem , of ...
Including Translations ... In the intervals of his pain , being made unable to use the common exercises , he used to swing in a chair , and sometimes played upon an organ . He was now confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem , of ...
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... pain to a pious ear . The language of rebellion cannot be the same with that of obedience . The malignity of Satan foams in haughtiness and obstinacy ; but his expres- sions are commonly general , and no otherwise offen- sive than as ...
... pain to a pious ear . The language of rebellion cannot be the same with that of obedience . The malignity of Satan foams in haughtiness and obstinacy ; but his expres- sions are commonly general , and no otherwise offen- sive than as ...
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... pain , Torments him round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate . At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild . A dungeon ...
... pain , Torments him round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate . At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild . A dungeon ...
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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.