Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 70
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted ...
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted ...
Page 202
... passed the zenith , which he places at his fifty - fifth year . This is to allot the mind but a small portion . Intellectual decay is doubtless not uncommon ; but it seems not to be universal . Newton was in his eighty- fifth year ...
... passed the zenith , which he places at his fifty - fifth year . This is to allot the mind but a small portion . Intellectual decay is doubtless not uncommon ; but it seems not to be universal . Newton was in his eighty- fifth year ...
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... passed under his pen had all the life , proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it , which an exquisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgement , could possibly bestow on it . The epique , lyrick , elegiack , every sort of ...
... passed under his pen had all the life , proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it , which an exquisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgement , could possibly bestow on it . The epique , lyrick , elegiack , every sort of ...
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