The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... side he took , I know not ; his descendant inherited no veneration for the White Rose . His grandfather John was keeper of the forest of Shotover , a zealous papist , who disinherited his son because he had forsaken the religion of his ...
... side he took , I know not ; his descendant inherited no veneration for the White Rose . His grandfather John was keeper of the forest of Shotover , a zealous papist , who disinherited his son because he had forsaken the religion of his ...
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... side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators whom I op- pose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch ...
... side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators whom I op- pose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch ...
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... sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in- jurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other Royalists ...
... sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in- jurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other Royalists ...
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... side , he departs : whereat the Chorus sings of the battle and victory in Heaven , against him and his accomplices : as before , after the first act , was sung a hymn of the creation . Here again may ap- pear Lucifer , relating and ...
... side , he departs : whereat the Chorus sings of the battle and victory in Heaven , against him and his accomplices : as before , after the first act , was sung a hymn of the creation . Here again may ap- pear Lucifer , relating and ...
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... side . He then removed to Jewin - Street , near Alders- gate - Street ; and , being blind and by no means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and atten- dant ; and therefore , by the recommendation of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth ...
... side . He then removed to Jewin - Street , near Alders- gate - Street ; and , being blind and by no means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and atten- dant ; and therefore , by the recommendation of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth ...
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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.