The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... rest are 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 ...
... rest are 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 ...
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... after some debate between her and her hus- band in whose name it should be entered ; and the rest augmented their little stock , with which they 6 removed to Islington . This was the greatest bene- 62 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... after some debate between her and her hus- band in whose name it should be entered ; and the rest augmented their little stock , with which they 6 removed to Islington . This was the greatest bene- 62 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... rest were lower powers ; of which the least could wield Those elements , and arm him with the force Of all their regions ; powers , which only the control of Omnipotence re- strains from laying creation waste , and filling the vast ...
... rest were lower powers ; of which the least could wield Those elements , and arm him with the force Of all their regions ; powers , which only the control of Omnipotence re- strains from laying creation waste , and filling the vast ...
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... rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place Eternal Justice had prepared For those rebellious : here ...
... rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place Eternal Justice had prepared For those rebellious : here ...
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... rest , if any rest can harbour there And , reassembling our afflicted Powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity : What reinforcement we may gain from hope ...
... rest , if any rest can harbour there And , reassembling our afflicted Powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity : What reinforcement we may gain from hope ...
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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.