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Page 8
... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , “ That , when they told
Cowley how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill -
success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a
man .
... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , “ That , when they told
Cowley how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill -
success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a
man .
Page 44
Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that yet belong to fate ,
Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate Before it falls into his hand ; The
bondman of the cloistor so , All that he does receive does always owe . And still
as ...
Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that yet belong to fate ,
Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate Before it falls into his hand ; The
bondman of the cloistor so , All that he does receive does always owe . And still
as ...
Page 61
From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was
again received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the
keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced
him to ...
From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was
again received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the
keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced
him to ...
Page 63
Here he received more boys , to be boarded and instructed . Let not our
veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great
promises and small performance , on the man who hastens home , because his
countrymen ...
Here he received more boys , to be boarded and instructed . Let not our
veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great
promises and small performance , on the man who hastens home , because his
countrymen ...
Page 68
It were injurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her
brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He
published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the ...
It were injurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her
brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He
published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the ...
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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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