The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she " plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty ...
... defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she " plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty ...
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... defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : - Quid agas , cum dira et fædior omni Crimine persona est ? As Salmasius ...
... defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : - Quid agas , cum dira et fædior omni Crimine persona est ? As Salmasius ...
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... defended . Nothing can be more just than that rebellion should end in slavery ; that he who had justified the murder of his king , for some acts which seemed to him unlawful , should now sell his services and his flatteries , to a ...
... defended . Nothing can be more just than that rebellion should end in slavery ; that he who had justified the murder of his king , for some acts which seemed to him unlawful , should now sell his services and his flatteries , to a ...
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... defended all that wanted defence , he * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is ... defend himself . He undertook his own 74 MILTON .
... defended all that wanted defence , he * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is ... defend himself . He undertook his own 74 MILTON .
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Samuel Johnson. found leisure to defend himself . He undertook his own vindi- cation against More , whom he declares in his title to be justly called the author of the " Regii Sanguinis Clamor . " In this there is no want of vehemence or ...
Samuel Johnson. found leisure to defend himself . He undertook his own vindi- cation against More , whom he declares in his title to be justly called the author of the " Regii Sanguinis Clamor . " In this there is no want of vehemence or ...
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