The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... raise no great expectations : they would in any nu- merous school have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the ...
... raise no great expectations : they would in any nu- merous school have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the ...
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... raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , per- haps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of de- clining it , appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life ...
... raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , per- haps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of de- clining it , appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life ...
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... raised an high opinion of English elegance and lite- rature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than ...
... raised an high opinion of English elegance and lite- rature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than ...
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... raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to re- pudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclina- tion , published ( in 1644 ) The Doctrine and Disci- pline of Divorce ...
... raised violent resentment . Milton soon determined to re- pudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclina- tion , published ( in 1644 ) The Doctrine and Disci- pline of Divorce ...
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... raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - gene- ral in Sir William Waller's army . But the ...
... raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - gene- ral in Sir William Waller's army . But 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.