The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . 19 What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will ...
... received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . 19 What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will ...
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... 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 Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertain- ment , waited for him ...
... 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 Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertain- ment , waited for him ...
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... 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 per- formance , on the man who hastens home , because his country- men are ...
... 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 per- formance , on the man who hastens home , because his country- men are ...
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... 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 Liberty of unlicensed Printing . The ...
... 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 Liberty of unlicensed Printing . The ...
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... received from Pope , as delivered by Betterton , who might have heard it from Davenant . In the war between the King and parliament , Davenant was made prisoner , and condemned to die ; but was spared at the request of Milton . When the ...
... received from Pope , as delivered by Betterton , who might have heard it from Davenant . In the war between the King and parliament , Davenant was made prisoner , and condemned to die ; but was spared at the request of Milton . When the ...
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