The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends , and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the least of pedantry . ' Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be ...
... sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends , and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the least of pedantry . ' Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be ...
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... son , and he must have known when he wrote this and the following paragraph that he was giving the sanction of his name to what was atrociously untrue . The prayer in ques- tion was published in the first edition of the Iconoclastes ...
... son , and he must have known when he wrote this and the following paragraph that he was giving the sanction of his name to what was atrociously untrue . The prayer in ques- tion was published in the first edition of the Iconoclastes ...
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... son in the year of the Restoration . In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has ...
... son in the year of the Restoration . In the beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has ...
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... son half , August 17 , 1683 , half , March 24 , 1690 , at a price considerably enlarged . In the history of ' Pa- radise Lost ' a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem ...
... son half , August 17 , 1683 , half , March 24 , 1690 , at a price considerably enlarged . In the history of ' Pa- radise Lost ' a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem ...
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... son Thomas , who suc- ceeded Agar in the Crown - office , and left a daughter living in 1749 in Grosvenor - street . Milton had children only by his first wife ; Anne , Mary , and Deborah . Anne , though deformed , mar- ried a master ...
... son Thomas , who suc- ceeded Agar in the Crown - office , and left a daughter living in 1749 in Grosvenor - street . Milton had children only by his first wife ; Anne , Mary , and Deborah . Anne , though deformed , mar- ried a master ...
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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.