The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant Abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman ...
... perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant Abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman ...
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... perhaps Alabaster's Roxana2 . Of the exercises , which the rulers of the Univer- sity required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had been undoubtedly ap- plauded ; for they were such as few could perform ; yet ...
... perhaps Alabaster's Roxana2 . Of the exercises , which the rulers of the Univer- sity required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had been undoubtedly ap- plauded ; for they were such as few could perform ; yet ...
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... perhaps the loss of a term , • Me tenet urbs reflua quam Thamesis alluit unda , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revisere Camum , Nec dudum vetiti me laris angit amor.- Nec duri libet usque minas ...
... perhaps the loss of a term , • Me tenet urbs reflua quam Thamesis alluit unda , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revisere Camum , Nec dudum vetiti me laris angit amor.- Nec duri libet usque minas ...
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... perhaps not without some contempt for others ; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the ...
... perhaps not without some contempt for others ; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the ...
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... perhaps too diffuse on common topics : but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kind- ness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the ...
... perhaps too diffuse on common topics : but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kind- ness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the ...
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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.