The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some en comiastic verses : In ...
... opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some en comiastic verses : In ...
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... opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan ...
... opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan ...
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... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must 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 ...
... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must 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 ...
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... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recita- tion ; because in one the sense is now ...
... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recita- tion ; because in one the sense is now ...
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... opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of declining it , appears in a letter to one ...
... opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of declining it , appears in a letter to one ...
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