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Page 377
... Spirit of an Ancient , by deviating into the modern Manners of Expression . If there be sometimes a Darkness , there is often a Light in Antiquity , which nothing better preserves than a Version almost literal . I know no Liberties one ...
... Spirit of an Ancient , by deviating into the modern Manners of Expression . If there be sometimes a Darkness , there is often a Light in Antiquity , which nothing better preserves than a Version almost literal . I know no Liberties one ...
Page 804
... spirit in English literature ; they could not succeed in it ; the resistance to baffle them , the want of intelligent sympathy to guide and uphold them , were too great . Their literary creation , compared with the literary creation of ...
... spirit in English literature ; they could not succeed in it ; the resistance to baffle them , the want of intelligent sympathy to guide and uphold them , were too great . Their literary creation , compared with the literary creation of ...
Page 1005
... spirit , we are filled with wonder , terror , and amusement , so magnificent is that spirit , so prolific , inexorable , grammatical , and dull . Like all animals and plants , the cosmos has its own way of doing things , not wholly ...
... spirit , we are filled with wonder , terror , and amusement , so magnificent is that spirit , so prolific , inexorable , grammatical , and dull . Like all animals and plants , the cosmos has its own way of doing things , not wholly ...
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Aesop agen beautiful better boat called Captain Church Crito Ctesippus dear death delight earth enemy England English eyes face fair Falstaff father feel flowers FRANCIS VERE Froissart's Chronicles garden gentleman give ground Guenever hand hath haue head hear heard heart heaven honour Jocelin John King knew knyght kyng labour Lady learned light live look Lord Lothair Makbeth master Messrs mind moche morning nature never night noble passed Pembroke College person Plato pleasure praye Prince Redgauntlet Robert of Scotland sayd sche seemed ship side sight silence sonne soul spirit stood sweet talk tell Temse thanne thee therfore things thou thought tion told took town trees turned uncle Toby unto vnto voice walked whan whole wind woman word wyll young