Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
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... Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from external interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he had ...
... Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from external interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he had ...
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... Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law ...
... Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law ...
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