The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Coun- tess Dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatic entertainment . 6 He began now to grow weary of the country , and ...
... sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Coun- tess Dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatic entertainment . 6 He began now to grow weary of the country , and ...
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... sometimes to the house of one Blackborough , bis relation , in the lane of St. Martin's - le - Grand , and at one of his usual visits was surprised to see his wife come from ano- ther room , and implore forgiveness on her knees . He ...
... sometimes to the house of one Blackborough , bis relation , in the lane of St. Martin's - le - Grand , and at one of his usual visits was surprised to see his wife come from ano- ther room , and implore forgiveness on her knees . He ...
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... sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and some- times slowly improved by steady meditation . Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct , and therefore he naturally solaced his solitude by ...
... sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and some- times slowly improved by steady meditation . Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct , and therefore he naturally solaced his solitude by ...
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... sometimes played upon an organ . He was now confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem , of which the progress might be noted by those with whom he was familiar ; for he was obliged , when he had composed as many lines as his memory ...
... sometimes played upon an organ . He was now confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem , of which the progress might be noted by those with whom he was familiar ; for he was obliged , when he had composed as many lines as his memory ...
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... sometimes finds reception among wise men ; an opi- nion that restrains the operations of the mind to par- ticular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too high or too low for wisdom or for ...
... sometimes finds reception among wise men ; an opi- nion that restrains the operations of the mind to par- ticular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too high or too low for wisdom or for ...
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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.