The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was 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 ...
... thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was 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 ...
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... thing but his religion : and Milton , in return , ad- dressed him in a Latin poem , which must have raised an high opinion of English elegance and lite- rature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of ...
... thing but his religion : and Milton , in return , ad- dressed him in a Latin poem , which must have raised an high opinion of English elegance and lite- rature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of ...
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... thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is 6 7 Dr. Johnson alludes to a work , entitled , Tractatulas de Carmine Dramatis Poetarum Veterum præsertim in Choris tragicis et veteris Comædiæ , ' & c . & c ...
... thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is 6 7 Dr. Johnson alludes to a work , entitled , Tractatulas de Carmine Dramatis Poetarum Veterum præsertim in Choris tragicis et veteris Comædiæ , ' & c . & c ...
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... thing by any writer of eminence . The antagonist that appeared is styled by him , ' A Serv- ing Man turned Solicitor . ' Howel , in his Letters , mentions the new doctrine with contempt ; and it was , I suppose , thought more worthy of ...
... thing by any writer of eminence . The antagonist that appeared is styled by him , ' A Serv- ing Man turned Solicitor . ' Howel , in his Letters , mentions the new doctrine with contempt ; and it was , I suppose , thought more worthy of ...
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... thing after- wards till the king's death , when , finding his mur- derers condemned by the Presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some ' Remarks on the Articles of Peace ...
... thing after- wards till the king's death , when , finding his mur- derers condemned by the Presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some ' Remarks on the Articles of Peace ...
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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.