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Page 95
... Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that Philips could ...
... Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that Philips could ...
Page 221
... PHILIPS Matre ipsius pientissimâ , Dilecti Filii Memoriae non sine Lacrymis dicatum . His Epitaph at Westminster : Herefordiae conduntur Ossa , Hoc in Delubro statuitur Imago , Britanniam omnem pervagatur Fama JOHANNIS PHILIPS : Qui ...
... PHILIPS Matre ipsius pientissimâ , Dilecti Filii Memoriae non sine Lacrymis dicatum . His Epitaph at Westminster : Herefordiae conduntur Ossa , Hoc in Delubro statuitur Imago , Britanniam omnem pervagatur Fama JOHANNIS PHILIPS : Qui ...
Page 231
... Philips : they admire points and turns , and conse- quently have no judgement of what is great and majestick ; he ... Philips , who make the ancients , and particularly Virgil , their standard . ' But , before I enter on this ...
... Philips : they admire points and turns , and conse- quently have no judgement of what is great and majestick ; he ... Philips , who make the ancients , and particularly Virgil , their standard . ' But , before I enter on this ...
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