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Page xxix
It has all the sweetness of Fletcher , with a richer structure of versification , more foreign idioms , more learned allusions , and a higher reach of fancy . It does not rise into all the wildness of the romantic fable , only because ...
It has all the sweetness of Fletcher , with a richer structure of versification , more foreign idioms , more learned allusions , and a higher reach of fancy . It does not rise into all the wildness of the romantic fable , only because ...
Page xlviii
He speaks again of a mute and spiritless mate ; ' and again , if he shall find himself bound fast to an image of earth and phlegm , with whom he looked to be the copartner of a sweet and gladsome society : these observations will ...
He speaks again of a mute and spiritless mate ; ' and again , if he shall find himself bound fast to an image of earth and phlegm , with whom he looked to be the copartner of a sweet and gladsome society : these observations will ...
Page liii
They have all the pastoral beauties and sweet descriptions of our elder poets , embellished , and heightened by a richer style , and a more refined combination . It has been more than once observed , that these poems , short as they are ...
They have all the pastoral beauties and sweet descriptions of our elder poets , embellished , and heightened by a richer style , and a more refined combination . It has been more than once observed , that these poems , short as they are ...
Page lxiii
me for these many years , in a more than brotherly union , by similitude of studies , and by the sweetness of your manners . In that memorable battle of Marston Moor , when our left wing was routed , the chief officers looking back in ...
me for these many years , in a more than brotherly union , by similitude of studies , and by the sweetness of your manners . In that memorable battle of Marston Moor , when our left wing was routed , the chief officers looking back in ...
Page cxiv
They eat , they drink , and with refection sweet Are fill'd , before th ' all - bounteous King , ' & c . were thus enlarged in the second edition : " They eat , they drink , and in communion sweet Quaff immortality , and joy , ( secure ...
They eat , they drink , and with refection sweet Are fill'd , before th ' all - bounteous King , ' & c . were thus enlarged in the second edition : " They eat , they drink , and in communion sweet Quaff immortality , and joy , ( secure ...
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