The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
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... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to have ... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the en- comiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not ...
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to have ... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the en- comiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not ...
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... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rainbow be the fiddle - stick of the fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first ...
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rainbow be the fiddle - stick of the fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first ...
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... Italy ; and at his return devoted himself to the court . In 1665 he went to sea with Sandwich , and distinguished himself at Bergen by un- common intrepidity ; and the next summer served again on board Sir Edward Spragge , who , in the ...
... Italy ; and at his return devoted himself to the court . In 1665 he went to sea with Sandwich , and distinguished himself at Bergen by un- common intrepidity ; and the next summer served again on board Sir Edward Spragge , who , in the ...
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... Italy , and amused himself with its antiquities , and particularly with medals , in which he acquired uncommon skill . At the restoration , with the other friends of monarchy , he came to England , was made captain of the band of ...
... Italy , and amused himself with its antiquities , and particularly with medals , in which he acquired uncommon skill . At the restoration , with the other friends of monarchy , he came to England , was made captain of the band of ...
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