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Page 16
To a Lady , who wrote poesies for rings . They , who above do various circles find
, Say , like a ring , th ' equator Heaven does bind . When Heaven shall be adorn'd
by thee , ( Which then more Heav'n than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the ...
To a Lady , who wrote poesies for rings . They , who above do various circles find
, Say , like a ring , th ' equator Heaven does bind . When Heaven shall be adorn'd
by thee , ( Which then more Heav'n than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the ...
Page 17
The Lover supposes his Lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and
rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear :
When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the
last ...
The Lover supposes his Lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and
rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear :
When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the
last ...
Page 67
The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare
diet and hard study : for , as Philips relates , “ having for a month led a
philosophic life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much
company ...
The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare
diet and hard study : for , as Philips relates , “ having for a month led a
philosophic life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much
company ...
Page 93
... whose name I once knew considered as a pollution of its walls . " Milton has
the reputation of having been in his youth eminently beautiful , so as to have
been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted
at the ...
... whose name I once knew considered as a pollution of its walls . " Milton has
the reputation of having been in his youth eminently beautiful , so as to have
been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted
at the ...
Page 102
... to find their way back , and leave a helplese lady to all the sadness and danger
of solitude . This , however , is a defect overbalanced by its convenience . it may
What deserves more reprehension is , that the prologue spoken 102 MILTON .
... to find their way back , and leave a helplese lady to all the sadness and danger
of solitude . This , however , is a defect overbalanced by its convenience . it may
What deserves more reprehension is , that the prologue spoken 102 MILTON .
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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